Web service to validate US states, city and zipcode

[Tahir Akram]

I want to validate city against selected state and zipcode against selected city.

--> State --> City --> Zipcode

Is there any free web service that I can use to validate it.

Kindly help...

thanks in advance.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

You can find a large list of publicly accessible WS at www.xmethods.net. Maybe you'll find something there.

[Tahir Akram]

Thanks Dittmer, your said site really contains a lot of handy webservices.

I have found another http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx .

I am new to web services and still messing to start with it,
as I implement it in my GET action of form it gave me the response in xml. It is my desire result. I only want to ask, how can I get this xml tree (response) in my code.

Or there any way to call this webservice from code. They also provide soap-envelop, how to use it ???

Using in HTTP GET

GET [url=http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByState?USState=<string>]http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByState?USState=<string>[/url] 

Given SOAP Envelop

  OST /uszip.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: [url=http://www.webservicex.net]www.webservicex.net[/url]
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetInfoByState"
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <GetInfoByState xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET">
      <USState>string</USState>
    </GetInfoByState>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>  

Please help or suggest any kick-start reading...

Thanks
[ July 03, 2007: Message edited by: Tahir Akram ]

[Tahir Akram]

another thing, they also give a wsdl file. http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx?WSDL

kindly tell how can I use it in my java code...?

hint??

[Ulf Dittmer]

You would use the WSDL to create Java client classes for the WS, using a tool that the WS toolkit you use provides. E.g., Axis comes with the wsdl2java tool that does this.

[Tahir Akram]

I have downloaded Java Web Services Developer Pack 2.0 (Java WSDP), will it works for me, what I want. Mean composing SOAP request and getting SOAP response (the xml file tree)?

Thanks.

[Amit M Tank]

Hi Tahir,

Just read the Axis documentation on the net Get the wsdl2java utility, create the client side stubs and servicelocator which can be used to invoke the webservices.

Regards,
Amit Tank

[Peer Reynders]

Looking at the Axis 1.x documentation isn't going to help with a JAX-WS stack like JWSDP 2.0. According to Mustang: The fast track to Web services Web Services in Java 6 SE use a tool called wsimport - JWSDP 2.0 uses the same tool.

Though ultimately it may be simpler to use Axis 1.x WSDL2Java to generate the client stubs according to the steps described in 3. WSDL2Java: Generate the Server-side Wrapper Code and Stubs For Easy Client Access (followed by 6. Client: Write a Client That Uses the Generated Stubs to Easily Access the Web Service) � compared to using the JWSDP 2.0.