SOAP Examples in wsdp-1_0-ea2

Question

Dear list,
in the Java Web Services Tutorial there is one example pointing to the endpoint:
http://wombat.ztrade.com with a service called GetLastTradePrice is defined. Is this a real-world sample web service? It doesn't seem accessible publicly and I don't find a responding SOAP servlet defining this web service in the Web Services package.
So is the code just pure demonstrational code or is it supposed to be a working example?
There is a RespondingServlet class but it does not return any Quote value, just a dummy response message.
Could someone that has played around with this explain the setup?

Answer 1

I'm not going to try to answer your question, but I will mention something I learned. I downloaded the WSDP from Sun and found it to be very poorly done. (I realise it was a beta). If you really want to learn about web services and need a more simple example then use the tutorial at IBM.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-peer1.html?dwzone=webservices
My suggestion is to use the tutorial and once you get a few services communicating switch from Apache Soap to Apach AXIS. This will teach you what the minimum requirements are to run a web service and not overwhelm you with gobs of information like the WSDP does.
Axis is easy to work with and web services become much simpler when you realise the minimum set of applications you need.
1) An XML parser
2) A Soap Messenger(i.e. Axis)
Those are the only two required to make an RPC call to a remote web service. If you want to serve up your own you need a server such as Tomcat.