Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Notice that we can develop web service clients for web services we didn't
develop ourselves. In order to do this we simply select the
Local File
radio button to use a WSDL file in our hard drive, or the
WSDL
URL
radio button to use a WSDL that is published online.
At this point, a new node labeled
Web Service References
is added to our project.
Expanding this node all the way reveals the operations we defined in our web
services project.
Typically, writing a web service client involves some amount of "boilerplate" code.
However, when using NetBeans, we can simply drag the web service operation we
wish to invoke to our code. This results in generating all necessary boilerplate code,
and leaving us to simply specify which parameters we want to send to the web
service. Dragging the
inchesToCentimeters
operation from the
Projects
window to
the
main
method of our web services client project results in the following code
being generated.
