Using and testing web services in Eclipse

Question

Can you tell the BEST way how to test & use Web Services in Eclipse ?

I had little experience with web services, that is, I used an Apache Axis plugin that gener

Answer 1

Axis2 plug-in works fine for creating a testing a web service through a WSDL. I've only tested a simple SOAP web service this way in Eclipse.

What I have not been able to do myself is create another project for example a Dynamic Web App project and create a client WSDL from that web service. I could copy the WSDL into my new project but that would be silly. Realistically we don't copy a WSDL we generate one based on the web service WSDL but through a registered address that points to that web service.

I have read up a little on the CXF option and thought that I had added what I needed to use it. So far I have not seen any of the web service options in Eclipse with the exception of creating and testing a web service in the same project which to me is of little or no use.