So how do non-Microsoft people consume web services?

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I've gone through the process now of publishing a bunch of web services, hand writing all the WSDL descriptions, deploying them in Axis-apache etc, and now want to verify the exposed functionality is in line with how people will actually integrate them into their applications.

I suppose in the Micro$oft world there's Visual XXXX with a nice UDDI component, and some automagical import of services, allowing you to drag and drop away, chaining together your application.

What about other IDE's? I've checked NetBeans, Eclipse, and none seem to automate/support building applications using web services, and you have to manually do all the code yourself, even though this is obvious from the WSDL description. I don't mind scribbling a few SOAP requests together, but current support for all that WSDL info is zero!
Something along the lines of a WSIF is what is needed, but integrated to
an IDE such as NetBeans.

Does anyone have any suggestions of easier ways to build web applications, or is the field still too cutting edge?


Thanks