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

If you can relax your "no 3rd party libraries" requirement, and you have a WSDL for the web service then Axis makes it really easy. Just compile the WSDL using wsdl2java, and you can use the generated Java classes to consume the web service.