Accessing wsdl to build a web svcs client app

Question

We are users of WebLogic 8.1 but have hit an embarrassing impasse. We were demonstrating
how good it was using web services by deploying a service and using each of the
leading market tools to build a client app dynamically by just pointing the tool
at the published wsdl doc.
We hit a brick wall trying to do this with WLW.
For example in 3 mins in both JBuilderX & WebSphereAD5.1 we could tell the tool
we wanted to build a Web Service THEN WE SELECT 'CLIENT', provide a URL to where
the *.wsdl for the service is, then generate the code and test the functions published.
Three experts at work (self included) just can't figure out how to even get started
when attempting this with WLW. The help in WLW is as below ...
Creating a Web Service Control from a WSDL File
This procedure describes how to create a Web Service control if you have a WSDL
file for the target web service.
Ensure that the WSDL file for the web service is in your project.
Browse to the WSDL file in the Application pane.
Right-click on the WSDL file in the Application pane and select Generate JCX.
None of us could achieve this.
Any pointers to if this (dynamic build by pointing to wsdl URL) can be done at
all will be much appreciated. If not we know which tools to adopt.
Cheers
Doug Marker

Answer 1

Not a problem, I hope you have success with it. There's nothing like
popping up workshop and dropping in a control to talk with a web service in
like two minutes flat, I've found that has a nice profound affect when doing
demos. I also personally try to find a web service written in dot net or
perl or something totally opposite of J2EE which shows not only speed and
ease of creation but complete interoperability as well :)
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Ryan,
Many thanks for your post. Will be trying this today. I have sommitted todo
a live demo within a couple of weeks & want to be 100% sure that myself &other
demonstrators can show how easy this process is.
As a demo, it sure gets peoples attention.
Cheers
Doug Marker
"ryan upton" <ryanjupton at learningvoyage dot com> wrote:
Doug,
You're thinking is correct in that it should be easy to do this in
Workshop
and in fact it is. Grab a WSDL file from somewhere like xmethods.com
if you
don't have an internal repository containing your own services. I assume
you want to incorporate the service into a page flow? Open the .jpf,
under
data palette->controls->add select web service. In the wizard that pops
up
select a reference variable name in step one. In step two decidewhether
you want to use an existing .jcx or create a new one (it sounds like
you're
going to want to create a new one) In step three enter the uri for the
WSDL, click create and you're almost done. The only thing left is to
call
the methods of the web service and incorporate the results somewhere
in you
control or presentation. One cool thing that Workshop does is to provide
the ability to automagically create a pageflow from the .jcx control,
simply
right click the control you've created, select generate pageflow and
follow
the wizard. Of course this is good for demos and you'll probably want
to
tweak it for real development work :)
~RU
"Doug Marker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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We are users of WebLogic 8.1 but have hit an embarrassing impasse.We
were demonstrating
how good it was using web services by deploying a service and usingeach
of the
leading market tools to build a client app dynamically by just pointingthe tool
at the published wsdl doc.
We hit a brick wall trying to do this with WLW.
For example in 3 mins in both JBuilderX & WebSphereAD5.1 we could tellthe
tool
we wanted to build a Web Service THEN WE SELECT 'CLIENT', provide aURL to
where
the *.wsdl for the service is, then generate the code and test thefunctions published.
Three experts at work (self included) just can't figure out how toeven
get started
when attempting this with WLW. The help in WLW is as below ...
Creating a Web Service Control from a WSDL File
This procedure describes how to create a Web Service control if youhave a
WSDL
file for the target web service.
Ensure that the WSDL file for the web service is in your project.
Browse to the WSDL file in the Application pane.
Right-click on the WSDL file in the Application pane and select
Generate
JCX.
None of us could achieve this.
Any pointers to if this (dynamic build by pointing to wsdl URL) canbe
done at
all will be much appreciated. If not we know which tools to adopt.
Cheers
Doug Marker