Web Service Newbie!!

[A Kumar]

Hi,
I am new to web services...I have very little knowledge about XML..

How much of XML is needed to get started with web services...

Thanks in advance

Regards

[Chris Nappin]

I'm afraid you need to learn quite a lot. Even if you use a toolkit that hides a lot of the underlying details, you need to know what you're looking at when debugging your service.

If your services are non-trivial, or are going to involve more than one programming language (e.g. Java <=> .Net) I strongly recommend you use WSDL.

www.w3schools.com is a good place to start. You need to look at:

XML

Namespaces

SOAP

To learn WSDL you'll also have to learn XML Schema.

[A Kumar]

Thanks Chris!!

[Kimberly Layton]

I am also a newbie to coding webservices. Although I am more familiar with xml , soap etc. as I have spent some time debugging. However I need to create all the java classes that go along with my wsdl definition. Anyone know a good place to start?

[Joe Shy]

Kimberly,

If you have your WSDL already apache axis has an app that you can use called WSDL2Java to create some of the java.

[URL= http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html#WSDL2JavaBuildingStubsSkeletonsAndDataTypesFromWSDL ]Apache Doc on WSDL2Java[/url]