How to do a SOAP Web Service call from Java class?

Lance.L.P

Hi,

I am trying to create a SOAP client using java that:

Serializes the object to XML;
Calls the web method through HTTP manipulation (in this case DFS); and
Parse the returning XML response back into an object.

Basically i am trying to create a custom SOAP client which will send a xml over dfs and get a response.

I am currently trying to use the SAAJ (SOAP with Attachments API for Java) framework

Anyone with an idea on how to do this please help.

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mszurap

SAAJ is just an extension - forget it for now.

1. Try to use EMC DFS SDK. That has a complete set of client jars, to consume DFS services, you don't need to generate any java client, only build your app. (DFS SDK uses JAX-WS behind the scenes)

2. If you cannot use EMC DFS SDK, then you can build your own WSDL based client. For example you can generate a client with JAX-WS (look for the appropriate version which your application server supports). It has a utility wsimport.

3. If it does not do, you can also generate a Java client with Axis (1.x or preferably 2.x), it has a utility wsdl2java if I remember well.