Accessing Web Sources - Beginning Java Programming: The Object-Oriented Approach - page 370

To test the examples in this chapter, you'll need a server that can respond to SOAP queries. To this
end, you'll be using the services offered by the following website: http://www.webservicex.net .
This website hosts a number of small, working, example web services, and serves over six million
requests a day. The following Try It Out will help you explore the website.

exploring SOAp Services try it out

This exercise will let you explore the webservicex.net website and its services to get a feel for how
they work.
1.

Navigate to http://www.webservicex.net in your web browser. You'll see a page appearing
with a list of web services you can choose from.

2.

In this example, use the “Stock Quote” web service, retrievable at http://www.webservicex
.net/ws/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=9 .

3.

The page shown in Figure 10-7 should appear for the “Stock Quote” web service.

figure 10-7