I used WSAD 5.1.2 to create a web services client following this article:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0308_soyannwo/soyannwo1.htm Everything worked well. WSAD has a nifty wizard for creating the client and
test code, so there's not any coding whatsoever. Just point it at the web service, fill in some parameters, and let it go.
However, the process added some reference libraries to the project. In particular: commons-discovery.jar, webservices.jar, wsdl4j.jar. Therefore, when I exported the project ear file and deployed it on a standalone WebSphere App Server, I got ClassNotFoundExceptions. Finally, I decided to put these three jars into WEB-INF/lib of the web project. I would have been happier, though, if this had been part of the process, given that everything else was automatic. What is the best practice here? Where should I put those jars?