How to add custom Http Header for C# Web Service Client consuming Axis 1.4 Web service

It seems the original author has found their solution, but for anyone else who gets here looking to add actual custom headers, if you have access to mod the generated Protocol code you can override GetWebRequest: protected override System.Net.WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri) { System.Net.WebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(uri); request.Headers.Add(“myheader”, “myheader_value”); return request; } Make sure you remove … Read more

Can a WSDL indicate the SOAP version (1.1 or 1.2) of the web service?

SOAP 1.1 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ SOAP 1.2 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/ The wsdl is able to define operations under soap 1.1 and soap 1.2 at the same time in the same wsdl. Thats useful if you need to evolve your wsdl to support new functionality that requires soap 1.2 (eg. MTOM), in this case you dont … Read more

JAX-WS Loading WSDL from jar

Yes this is most definitely possible as I have done it when creating clients through javax.xml.ws.EndpointReference, a WS-A related class. I have added a classpath reference to the WSDL to the WS-A EndPointReference and the Metro implementation of JAX-WS loaded it just fine. Whether loading the WSDL from the WS-A EndPointReference or from a file … Read more

how to generate web service out of wsdl

There isn’t a magic bullet solution for what you’re looking for, unfortunately. Here’s what you can do: create an Interface class using this command in the Visual Studio Command Prompt window: wsdl.exe yourFile.wsdl /l:CS /serverInterface Use VB or CS for your language of choice. This will create a new .cs or .vb file. Create a … Read more

WSDL vs REST Pros and Cons

The two protocols have very different uses in the real world. SOAP(using WSDL) is a heavy-weight XML standard that is centered around document passing. The advantage with this is that your requests and responses can be very well structured, and can even use a DTD. The downside is it is XML, and is very verbose. … Read more

How do you convert WSDLs to Java classes using Eclipse?

In Eclipse Kepler it is very easy to generate Web Service Client classes,You can achieve this by following steps . RightClick on any Project->Create New Other ->Web Services->Web Service Client->Then paste the wsdl url(or location) in Service Definition->Next->Finish You will see the generated classes are inside your src folder. NOTE :Without eclipse also you can … Read more