Simply consuming a web service in Java

Question

I have a very simple SOAP web service that I need to consume from a Java client. What is the easiest way to accomplish this without using any third party libraries? A requ

Answer 1

Depending on which version of JAVA you're using, some of the JAX-WS is built into it. JDK 6 has Java's JAX-WS standard implementation and you could just use it.

See the following:

• JAX-WS 2.1 and JAXB 2.1 is available in JDK 6 Update 4 release

• Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services (tutorial to use the JDK built-in JAX-WS for deploying and consuming a web service)