I am doing a project using Java and BPEL. I successfully created webservices in Java and integrated them using BPEL. All i generated a single output WSDL file. Now, I have to use this output WSDL file in my application using SOAP communication. How can i do that? Is there any help out side for such scenarios? Walkthroughs are really appreciated..
Depending on the architecture of your application (Standard Java, Spring-based, ...) there might or not be a documented procedure to consume a SOAP-based webservice.
On the other hand, you're always free to pick a webservice development framework to handle that. For instance, you could pick either CXF or AXIS2 (I believe these are the two most popular frameworks for Java WebServices). Each of these frameworks provides a tool called "wsdl2java" that helps you generate client-side/server-side/both Java classes. Then, you can easily add those classes and the requireds libraries to your application.
Having used CXF in the past, It even does provide several way to consume a webservice
Generating the client-side classes
Using CXF dynamic client factory : basically, you'll retrieve an endpoint proxy from a factory object.
Hope that'll help
I start with SoapUI (or downloadable from sourceforge), that will let you consume the WSDL and fire off requests against your server. Typically I'm hitting someone else's webservice, and trying to figure out what the data looks like before I start wiring my code together, but in your case its just a verification that the services would be/are working.
Then, as #KHY said, you can automatically convert the wsdl into java with a wsdl2java and start coding (look under the Related list on the right panel of this SO screen)
If it is a Java application, then the easiest way to consume a service is using JAX-WS. It's really easy to create a Web service client from WSDL.
See this link
Once you deploy the BPEL project on server, then refer the WSDL with http://server:port/application/YourBPELProjectService?WSDL in the consuming application. You will need to write different client code based on the BPEL type - Synchronous, Asynchronous etc.
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I need to consume a web service in java/jsp code. Only the WSDL is available for me to start.
I understand I need to convert the WSDL into java client JAR file using AXIS2 / CXF but I cannot build the whole application on this.
Can someone provide a simple example or basic steps for me to start on this?
I am not able to join the dots here. WSDL, java client JAR, AXIS2.... All online tutorials point on 'creating' a web service.
There are a number of tools capable of doing this included in various frameworks and app servers (CXF, JBoss/Wildfly, etc.), but the JDK itself includes a tool called wsimport which can consume a WSDL file and produce the JAX-WS stubs you need to remotely-invoke the service endpoints via a Java client.
Here's one quick description: http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/jax-ws-wsimport-tool-example/; here is the Oracle documentation for the tool in JDK 7: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/share/wsimport.html.
WSDL is just the conract for the web service. You need to generate client code using it, later you can implement your code to call the web service. Like #maerics pointed out, you should use wsdl2java to generate your client code for AXIS2 and use your client to consume the web service.
You can check this link for an example of client stub generation for AXIS2.
I need to access a soap service and I have the wsdl url too. How would I go about doing this in java? Are there any good tutorials to achieve this?
Also I have an xml file generated in android to call a soap service but it isnt working. Is there any place I can paste this xml to check if the xml is correctly calling the webservice (I am using wireshark to record the xml being sent and it appears fine).
Regarding the first part of your question, you could use SoapUI ( http://www.soapui.org/ ) to load the WSDL and generate Java Client code for it ( http://nitinaggarwal.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/generating-client-java-code-for-wsdl-using-soap-ui-axis2-wsdl2java/ ). I used this way once but maybe there are better ways to do it.
The easiest is to generate a client webservice stub in netbeans. Simply create a new project and then add new web service client. Supply the WSDL and your done. Netbeans also has a great web service tutorial.
Very useful link: http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/web.html
I would suggest staying away from axis web service clients. My experience with axis is not great. wsimport used by netbeans is great so far. Uses JAX-WS.
You can use wsimport (part of JDK 6)
See documentation
CXF is both powerful and easy-to-use tool for Webservice Client Generation.
Axis does also ws client generation, but I personally had problems with it.
I need to call Java web service from .Net application and that web service should accept the parameters from .Net but am not sure about the procedure. If anyone have some idea then please let me know.
.NET web service is SOAP web service. Just get WSDL, generate stubs and use it.
You should get the WSDL first, then using Eclipse (I would suggest Netbeans) you generate/create the Stubs and call the service. It is really nothing fancy at all. Once you have the WSDL the rest (how you generate the classes using Netbeans) is really covered a lot online.
I need to "dive into JAX-WS programming".
So, I played around with Netbeans, after 20 or so erroneous attempts,
finally managed to let a web service client execute a web service.
I noticed, that a lot of code is generated, especially JAXB classes
for the web service response.
My current task is, to write a web service and web client completely
by hand.
Is JAXB required at all? Is is part of the standard anyway? What would happen without it?
EDIT:
Seems that the answer is given here
You can see Developing Web Services with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Platform
I took a wsdl and used eclipse to generate the service, serviceLocator, ws interface, ws binding stub, ws proxy, and then the client code. I added a main method and was able to hit the webservice successfully.
I used this tutorial as a guide with the url below and no, there are no jaxb objects as I'm not pulling any objects back in the simple example I used. I was just hitting some methods that pulled back a boolean value.
http://px.pats.no/px/Eclipse_tutorial.html
I'm looking to generate a simple standalone Java client which will make calls to a SOAP web service, given a wsdl. When I say simple and standalone I mean that once I'm done I want to be able to do something like
import my.generated.nonsense;
public static void main(String[] args) {
Client client = new Client();
client.getSomething();
}
I've had great time recently with Maven on some other projects and I want to keep that going, so would aim to use it here. I don't want the tool to generate anything expect the classes that allow me to do the above.
Anyone done this recently and can recommend a ws library and Maven plugin? Thanks.
Have a look at CXF and its Maven plug in. CXF would generate code similar to yours (of course web services could fail and you should add exception handling). Have in mind though that SOAP web services is a complicated topic and simplicity in the generated code may not be always desirable. Generating a client with the default settings may not work for some clients. You would then need to tweak the configuration of the code generation and/or add code to handle it. CXF is good both for easy/default clients and more complicated ones.
I would recommend SOAP UI for what you need to do. You do not need to write any code - you can call the web service from the soap UI client.
If you need to automate making soap calls you can use the maven plugin as part of your build/deploy process. More info about the maven plugin here:
http://www.soapui.org/Test-Automation/maven-2x.html