Hi, I am trying to talk to a Web Service for which no WSDL file is being provided. The company who are providing the Web Service have given me a Word document with the structure of the SOAP requests/responses - they are running Perl SOAP::Lite and from some research on the web it looks like it may not be that easy to autogenerate a WSDL file using SOAP::Lite (http://search.cpan.org/author/PDENIS/WSDL-Generator-0.02/ http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boston-pm/2002-October/000225.html) In any case they tell me they won't be providing a WSDL file in this release...
So, unfortunately I don't think I can use WSDL2Java (I am running AXIS 1.1 for the client). I've taken a look at an example shipped with AXIS that doesn't assume a WSDL file... ~samples/jaxrpc/GetQuote1.java So I'm fine about connecting to the Web Service... My confusion lies in how to formulate the request (it's not as trivial as the samples..) The request I have to generate needs to be in the following format : --- Request --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema";> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <namesp1: GetUpdatedCustomer xmlns:namesp1="http://example/other";> <GetUpdatedCustomer> <CustomerService> <ServiceName xsi:type="xsd:string">xyservice</ServiceName> <ServiceToken xsi:type="xsd:string">32byteMD5hash</ServiceToken> <CountryCode xsi:type="xsd:string">cc</CountryCode> <LanguageCode xsi:type="xsd:string">cc</LanguageCode> <Timestamp xsi:type="xsd:string">dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm:ss</Timestamp> </CustomerService> <Date xsi:type="xsd:string">dd.mm.yyyy</Date> </GetUpdatedCustomer> </namesp1: GetUpdatedCustomer> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> Qs: Am I correct in progressing as follows ? - Create a java object named CustomerService with attributes {ServiceName,ServiceToken,CountryCode,LanguageCode,Timestamp } - Create a java object named Date with 1 attribute (string with actual date of interest) - call.addParameter("CustomerService",XMLType.SOAP_ELEMENT ?, customerServiceObj ,ParameterMode.IN) call.addParameter("Date",XMLType.SOAP_ELEMENT ?,dateObj,ParameterMode.IN) Not sure which XMLType to use... Any pointers would be appreciated greatly ! Thanks in advance, Irial > Irial Conroy > Software Engineer > Am-Beo Ltd. > +353 91 731 814 Direct > +353 91 730 737 Office > +353 91 751 002 Fax www.am-beo.com > ------------------------------ > This message may contain proprietary and valuable information of > Am-Beo. Am-Beo asserts its copyright to any proprietary information that > may have been supplied and the proscription of third party disclosure of > any such proprietary information. > >
