Spring Web Service Client Tutorial or Example Required

Question

I need to jump into the Spring Web Service Project, in that I required to implement the Spring Web Service\'s Client Only..

So, I have already gone through with Spri

Answer 1

in my previous project, I implemented a Webservice client with Spring 2.5.6, maven2, xmlbeans.

• xmlbeans is responsible for un/marshal
• maven2 is for project mgmt/building etc.

I paste some codes here and hope they are helpful.

xmlbeans maven plugin conf: (in pom.xml)

        projectname

        

        

            src/main/resources

            true

        

        

            target/generated-classes/xmlbeans

            

        

    


        

        

            org.codehaus.mojo

            xmlbeans-maven-plugin

            2.3.2

            

                

                    

                        xmlbeans

                    

                

            

            true

            

                src/main/resources/

            

        


            org.codehaus.mojo

            build-helper-maven-plugin

            

            1.1

            

                

                    add-source

                    generate-sources

                    

                        add-source

                    

                    

                        

                             target/generated-sources/xmlbeans

                        

                    

                



            

        
    

So from the above conf, you need to put the schema file (either standalone or in your WSDL file, you need to extract them and save as a schema file.) under src/main/resources. when you build the project with maven, the pojos are gonna be generated by xmlbeans. The generated sourcecodes will be under target/generated-sources/xmlbeans.

then we come to Spring conf. I just put the WS relevant context here:

finally, take a look the ws-client java class

public class MyWsClient extends WebServiceGatewaySupport {
 //if you need some Dao, Services, just @Autowired here.

    public MyWsClient(WebServiceMessageFactory messageFactory) {
        super(messageFactory);
    }

    // here is the operation defined in your wsdl
    public Object someOperation(Object parameter){

      //instantiate the xmlbeans generated class, infact, the instance would be the document (marshaled) you are gonna send to the WS

      SomePojo requestDoc = SomePojo.Factory.newInstance(); // the factory and other methods are prepared by xmlbeans
      ResponsePojo responseDoc = (ResponsePojo)getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(requestDoc); // here invoking the WS


//then you can get the returned object from the responseDoc.

   }

}

I hope the example codes are helpful.