Apache Axis2 - create a client to access a SOAP service

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cdvr - 10 Apr 2007 01:37 GMT

Hi,
I am new to SOAP and Axis2, but here is what I am trying to do.
There is a web service which has a URL that I can view:
www.somesite.com/BlahService.asmx ....this service has an operation,
"getNames". I am trying to figure out how to create a client which
accesses this web service. From what I googled I think Axis2 should
be what I need but I am not sure how to get started? Any tips on how
to access an already existing service?

thanks

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Arne Vajhøj - 10 Apr 2007 02:01 GMT

> Hi,
> I am new to SOAP and Axis2, but here is what I am trying to do.
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> be what I need but I am not sure how to get started? Any tips on how
> to access an already existing service?

You can use axis2 to generate stubs.

Here are an ant fragment to do that:

<taskdef name="codegen"
classname="org.apache.axis2.tool.ant.AntCodegenTask"
classpathref="axis2.classpath"/>
...
<target name="stubgen">
<codegen wsdlfilename="${wsdl.url}" output="${gensrc.dir}"
packagename="foobar.stub"/>
...
</target>

Arne

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DougJrs - 10 Apr 2007 23:56 GMT

> Hi,
> I am new to SOAP and Axis2, but here is what I am trying to do.
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>
> thanks

Here are a couple of links to pretty good examples:
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch03s05.html
http://xmlgateway.its.utexas.edu/docs/java_ex_soap.html
Google Page, lots of info and examples:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PLiuHqk_vhgJ:www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxm
l2/chapter/ch12.html+java+soap+client&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

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