How can we call a web service in java application?

Question

I want to call a web service in my java application. How do I achieve this? I'm new to web services.

Answer 1

Just use Google and search for Webservice and Java.

Here is a tutorial

Answer 2

Go to the Apache foundation web site and search for the "AXIS SOAP client"!

This is well documented and the client side consists of a single JAR file.

Also I would thourogly recommend SOAPUI for generating and reading test messages.

Answer 3

Go through this tutorial.

The basic steps are:

• download (if not already present) a JAX-WS implementation
• generate a java client by importing the wsdl with some tool (see below)
• invoke methods on the generated client code

This article shows how to do it step by step using NetBean's wizards