Web service client

[Tshegofatsom]

Hi,

If you are createing a web application that calls a web service, what type of technology one can use? Im thinking there are several options two that comes in mind is to create stubs using ant WSDL2JAVA task or create a client using netbeans new web service client option. Any body suggests any thing that can work and is better?

[Tolls]

Hi,

If you are createing a web application that calls a web service, what type of technology one can use? Im thinking there are several options two that comes in mind is to create stubs using ant WSDL2JAVA task or create a client using netbeans new web service client option. Any body suggests any thing that can work and is better?

There's the wsimport tools that comes with the JDK now, as part of JWS. I wouldn't be surprised to find that that's what netbeans uses to create the client.

I doubt there's a great deal of difference between the two main ones (wsdl2java or wsimport), but you should stick to one since they will produce different code. Thinking about it, though, I would expect a client generated with wsimport wouldn't need any extra jars to run.