What is the steps to create the web service client

Question

I'm quite new to web service and currently need to work on a web application that will call web service by passing the request data. Then will handle the response data. Following are questions that I would like to get your advice.
First, should I manually develop a schema? The request data will be passed as some element type (I thought a class should be generated and put in the class path), which will be some class with set/get(). Then I will use the schema to get a jar that contains the class file by using the xmlbean? Any example or suggestion on this?
Secondly, how does the java code in web application send/get the request/response data to/from the web service. Your example will greatly help.
I read article about WSDL and Schema and Soap. Get very confused on what really should be to follow step by step. Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

I propose that you start with some introductory tutorials. At seekda you will find two tutorials for newbies:
1) [Finding and Testing Web Services|http://seekda.com/blog/write-your-first-web-services-client-%e2%80%93-part-1-finding-and-testing-services/]
2) [Using Web Services|http://seekda.com/blog/write-your-first-web-services-client-part-2-using-services/]
The second tutorial actually addresses most of your questions.
Greetings,
Michal