Hi Naresh,

This is exactly what the Web Service Invocation Framework(WSIF) is for.

Now, you describe your service with a WSDL file which includes a SOAP
binding, with WSIF you can add bindings other than SOAP to the WSDL file,
for example a Java binding. In your application you then uses the WSIF
binding independent API to access the service, and have which binding is
actually chosen to be used made as a run time decision.

WSIF comes with binding implementations for SOAP, SOAP/JMS, Java, EJB, and
native JMS, so once your application starts using WSIF, the service can be
moved around your system to be implemented in  whatever technology is
appropriate, and your application never needs to change.

For more information see the Apache WSIF homepage at
http://ws.apache.org/wsif

       ...ant

Anthony Elder
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Web Services Development
IBM UK Laboratories,  Hursley Park
(+44) 01962 818320, x248320, MP208.


"Naresh Bhatia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/02/2003 14:57:01

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I have exposed a service via SOAP. However, I also need to access this
service internally from my application. Do you think it is okay to access
the service directly by calling its SOAP implementation (bypassing the Axis
servlet completely)? Is there preferred way to do this? Here's what I am
thinking:

Accessing the service via SOAP
  UserProviderService userProviderService = new UserProviderServiceLocator
();
  UserProvider userProvider = userProviderService.getuserservice(url);
  ..now start using userProvider..

Accessing the service directly using its SOAP implementation
  UserProvider userProvider = new UserserviceSoapBindingImpl()
  ..now start using userProvider..

Thanks.
Naresh





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