Java classes to generate SOAP requests from wsdl

Question

Hi there, I am looking for a way to easily generate SOAP requests from a wsdl file. for example, something like this:

WSDLObject myWsdl = new WSDLObject("http://www.whatever.com/myService?wsdl");
SOAPRequest myRequest = myWsdl.generateSOAPRequest();

Is there anything like that?

I am trying to do it dynamically via another application, so tools like WSDL2Java dont work for me (at least I think). I need to be able to generate these requests from user input, and then work with them from there.

any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can with WSDL2Java, the unique change is that you work with Java proxy objects and set the attributes of this objects to generate the SOAP request. Other way is use SOAPUI, for example to generate the SOAP message, and directly construct your SOAP message as StringBuffer and use directly a socket to call the service composing the complete HTTP/SOAP message from scratch.