----- Original Message ----- From: "easter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 05:24 Subject: So how do non-Microsoft people consume web services?
> 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. IDEs? Use the axis ant tasks and have your client stubs autogenerated off the server every time you build.
