Web Service Development - 2

This article will show you the simple way to develop a client class to call web services.

 

step 1. download standard binary distribution.

 

if your OS is vista, select control panel - system - Advanced system settings, go to 'advanced' tab and click 'Environment  Variables...'

 

set AXIS2_HOME as the axis2 installation folder for the binary distribution.

 

Note: this step can not be skipped.

 

step 2. run this command in windows command window

 

C:/Users/andy>%AXIS2_HOME%/bin/wsdl2java -uri http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SimpleService?wsdl -p client -s -o stub

 

-p: package name

-o: root folder for client source code

 

in my computer, the response message is as follows.

 

Using AXIS2_HOME:   E:/axis2-1.4.1
Using JAVA_HOME:    C:/jdk1.6.0_13
Retrieving document at 'http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SimpleService?wsdl'

 

so you can find client source code C:/Users/andy/stub/src/client/SimpleServiceStub.java

I will not list the source code for this class. it's a little long and complicated.

 

 Step 3. create a client class to call above SimpleServiceStub.java.

StubClient.java

package
 client;



public
 class StubClient {



	public
 static
 void main(String
[] args) throws
 Exception {

		SimpleServiceStub stub = new
 SimpleServiceStub();

		SimpleServiceStub.GetGreeting gp = new
 SimpleServiceStub.GetGreeting();

		gp.setName("bill gates"
);

		System
.out.println(stub.getGreeting(gp).get_return());

		System
.out.println(stub.getPrice().get_return());

	}

}

run this class, you will see the result returned from web service.