Creating Apache Axis2 Webservice Client

[Saurabh Pillai]

This is the document I am following, http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/userguide-creatingclients-xmlbeans.html ('long story' section)

Webservice (developed using JAX-RPC)

public class TestWSEndPoint extends ServletEndpointSupport{
	public String getGreetings(String name){
		return "Hello " + name;
	}
}

Webservice Client (developed using Apache Axis2)

	public static void main(String[] args){
		try {
			TestWSEndPointServiceStub stub = new TestWSEndPointServiceStub("What comes here?");
			getGreetings(stub);
		} catch (AxisFault e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	
	public static void getGreetings(TestWSEndPointServiceStub stub){
	
		// wsdl2java command neither generate requestDocument nor request files. But in the example they have used request 
                // document and I don't have these files. 

	}  

If required I can give you list of auto-generated files. How can I create an object of Stub? Any help is appreciated.

[Ulf Dittmer]

(developed using JAX-RPC)

This sounds suspicious - Axis2 does not support JAX-RPC.

[Saurabh Pillai]

Isn't webservice consumer implementation independent of actual webservice implementation? i.e. websevice could be implemented in java but consumer could be iphone(c), java or dot net.

Also, these webservices are currently being consumed for an iPhone apps. then what's wrong with Apache Axis client?


Thank You.

[g tsuji]

...what's wrong with Apache Axis client?

If you mean wrong in the sense that you might not be sure of the "What comes here?" below...

TestWSEndPointServiceStub stub = new TestWSEndPointServiceStub("What comes here?");

You should, modulo other complications, primarily look for the {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap}address element, in particular read its "location" attribute in the wsdl.

Axis2's supports for rpc is restricted to rpc/literal style; but I think not many would still use rpc/encoded style any more, so your application might be just that of the former, rpc/literal style.