Best way to consume RPC/encoded webservice?

Question

I need to consume old-school RPC/encoded WSDL webservice for my backend. At first I tried to use Apache CXF and JAX-WS for that, but JAX-WS wsimport tool doesn\

Answer 1

In case someone would like (well, "like" is not the right word here ;-) to use Axis 1.4, here is a maven plugin that can generate appropriate classes and Port interface.

    
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            axistools-maven-plugin
            1.4
            
                
                    generate-sources
                    generate-sources
                    
                        wsdl2java
                    
                    
                        
                        ${basedir}/src/main/resources/wsdl
                    
                
            
        
    



    
        org.apache.axis
        axis
        1.4
    
    
        org.apache.axis
        axis-jaxrpc
        1.4
    
    
        commons-logging
        commons-logging
        1.2
    
    
        commons-discovery
        commons-discovery
        0.5
    
    
        axis
        axis-wsdl4j
        1.5.1
    
    
        org.apache.axis
        axis-saaj
        1.4
    
    
    
        javax.activation
        activation
        1.1.1
    
    
        javax.mail
        mail
        1.4.7