As hinted in a comment to Jon’s answer, my recommendation would be to use a JAX-WS implementation like JAX-WS RI (which is included in Java 6) or Apache CXF. I’ll use JAX-WS RI to illustrate my answer as it’s available out of the box, on the command line (to explain the steps) but I’d recommend … Read more
Keep in mind, I’m completely biased (PMC Chair of CXF), but my thoughts: From a strictly “can the project do what I need it to do” perspective, both are pretty equivalent. There some “edge case” things that CXF can do that Axis 2 cannot and vice versa. But for 90% of the use cases, either … Read more
You cannot – a XSD describes the DATA aspects e.g. of a webservice – the WSDL describes the FUNCTIONS of the web services (method calls). You cannot typically figure out the method calls from your data alone. These are really two separate, distinctive parts of the equation. For simplicity’s sake you would often import your … Read more
The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is basically the equivalent to WSDL for RESTful services but there’s been an ongoing controversy whether something like this is needed at all. Joe Gregorio has written a nice article about that topic which is worth a read.
You can safely delete the WSDL cache files. If you wish to prevent future caching, use: ini_set(“soap.wsdl_cache_enabled”, 0); or dynamically: $client = new SoapClient(‘http://somewhere.com/?wsdl’, array(‘cache_wsdl’ => WSDL_CACHE_NONE) );
UPDATE 6/2012: This used to work at the time of the writing, but obviously no more. Sorry. In Firefox (might apply to other Gecko-based browsers as well) you can use the following JavaScript snippet to allow cross-domain calls: if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“Firefox”) != -1) { try { netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege(“UniversalBrowserRead”); } catch (e) { alert(“Permission UniversalBrowserRead denied — not … Read more
In PHP 5 you can use SoapClient on the WSDL to call the web service functions. For example: $client = new SoapClient(“some.wsdl”); and $client is now an object which has class methods as defined in some.wsdl. So if there was a method called getTime in the WSDL then you would just call: $result = $client->getTime(); … Read more
Security issue: This answer disables security features and should not be used in production! After migrating to PHP 5.6.5, the soap 1.2 did not work anymore. So I solved the problem by adding optional SSL parameters. My error: failed to load external entity How to solve: // options for ssl in php 5.6.5 $opts = … Read more
I finally figured out the right answer to this question today. <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId> <artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId> <version>${cxf.version}</version> <executions> <execution> <id>generate-sources</id> <phase>generate-sources</phase> <configuration> <sourceRoot>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/cxf</sourceRoot> <wsdlOptions> <wsdlOption> <wsdl>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/wsdl/FooService.wsdl</wsdl> <wsdlLocation>classpath:wsdl/FooService.wsdl</wsdlLocation> </wsdlOption> </wsdlOptions> </configuration> <goals> <goal>wsdl2java</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> Notice that I have prefixed the value in wsdlLocation with classpath:. This tells the plugin that the wsdl will be on … Read more
I would fire up Visual Studio, create a web project (or console app – doesn’t matter). For .Net Standard: I would right-click on the project and pick “Add Service Reference” from the Add context menu. I would click on Advanced, then click on Add Service Reference. I would get the complete file path of the … Read more