Recently I was playing around consuming web service inside Eclipse plug-in. Making simple web service call maybe a bit tricky at the beginning. I’m going to provide quick start instruction here,
Required software:
- Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developer
- JEE Standard Tools & Axis
Configuration steps:
- Define new JEE service in a workspace
- Create new plug-in project
- Add following dependencies to the plug-in:
- org.apache.commons.logging
- javax.wsdl
- javax.xml.rpc
- javax.xml.soap
- org.apache.commons.discovery
- org.apache.axis
- Generate web service client code
Consume web service:
Using web service in side a plug-in is no different than anyone else. Sample of invoking web service method:
TransportServiceSoap service = new TransportServiceLocator().getTransportServiceSoap(); service.getCities();
Instruction presented above is based on Eclipse 3.4.1 and uses sample web service from http://www.urbanlife.pl/
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It’s sad that this integration is done with Axis which has many many problems IMHO starting from performance problems to memory leaks (leak is the wrong term it’s a black hole) that you can’t transfer.
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Great post Radoslaw, I’m curious will the socket connections made route through the proxy settings setup in Eclipse?
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Hello,
thanks for the info provided can you let me know how to create a web service client in RCP application using web service runtime: Apache axis2 rather than axis..
Eagerly waiting for reply,,,
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I read your article and it is helpful.
But I’m facing a problem related to web service access on lotus notes. I’m developing a project that uses a web service call to get share point document library in lotus notes. All the web service access methods are implemented on net beans and created a jar files, I imported that jar files in eclipse and configured the project to run as lotus notes application. But web service access is possible only when running as a standalone application, When we run as lotus notes configuration, the “Server Send Http code 400: bad request” error getting. Please help me to solve this issue, because we are trying to solve this issue for last 2 weeks.
Thanks in advance…
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where to create TransportSearviceSoap object? help
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Please suggest where to write
TransportServiceSoap service = new TransportServiceLocator().getTransportServiceSoap();
service.getCities();
in which folder TransportServiceSoap gets created
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