Produce and Consume JAX-WS SOAP Web Service example

by MemoryNotFound · Published December 11, 2014 · Updated February 11, 2015

JAX-WS is a Standard Java API for building web services and clients that communicate using XML. These communications could be message-oriented as well as Remote Procedure Call-oriented. These messages are transmitted as SOAP messages (XML files) over HTTP.

Project Structure

src
|--main
|    +--java
|        +--com
|            +--memorynotfound
|                +--client
|                    |--GreetingClient.java
|                +--ws
|                    |--OrderService.java
|                    |--OrderServiceImpl.java
|                    |--WebServicePublisher.java
|    +--resources
pom.xml

JAX-WS SOAP Web Service

Creating the endpoint interface

package com.memorynotfound.ws;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding.Style;
import java.util.List;

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style = Style.RPC)
public interface OrderService {

    @WebMethod
    String[] getOrders();

    @WebMethod
    boolean addOrder(String order);

}

Creating the endpoint implementation

package com.memorynotfound.ws;

import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService(endpointInterface = "com.memorynotfound.ws.OrderService")
public class OrderServiceImpl implements OrderService {

    @Override
    public String[] getOrders() {
        return new String[]{"SSD", "Graphic Card", "GPU"};
    }

    @Override
    public boolean addOrder(String order) {
        System.out.println("Saving new order: " + order);
        return true;
    }
}

Publishing the web service

package com.memorynotfound.ws;

import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;

public class WebServicePublisher {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8888/service/order", new OrderServiceImpl());
    }

}

Testing the Web Service

When you run the WebServicePublisher the web services will be deployed and you can test it by accessing the generated WSDL. URL: http://localhost:8888/service/order?wsdl.

I posted the WSDL here for verification.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<!-- Published by JAX-WS RI (http://jax-ws.java.net). RI's version is JAX-WS RI 2.2.9-b130926.1035 svn-revision#5f6196f2b90e9460065a4c2f4e30e065b245e51e. -->
<!-- Generated by JAX-WS RI (http://jax-ws.java.net). RI's version is JAX-WS RI 2.2.9-b130926.1035 svn-revision#5f6196f2b90e9460065a4c2f4e30e065b245e51e. -->
<definitions targetNamespace="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/" name="OrderServiceImplService" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" xmlns:wsp="http://www.w3.org/ns/ws-policy" xmlns:wsp1_2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy" xmlns:wsam="http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tns="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
    <types>
        <xsd:schema>
            </xsd:import namespace="http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array" schemaLocation="http://localhost:8888/service/order?xsd=1">
        </xsd:schema>
    </types>
    <message name="addOrder">
        </part name="arg0" type="xsd:string">
    </message>
    <message name="addOrderResponse">
        </part name="return" type="xsd:boolean">
    </message>
    </message name="getOrders">
    <message name="getOrdersResponse">
        </part name="return" type="ns1:stringArray" xmlns:ns1="http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array">
    </message>
    <portType name="OrderService">
        <operation name="addOrder">
            </input wsam:Action="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/addOrderRequest" message="tns:addOrder">
            </output wsam:Action="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/addOrderResponse" message="tns:addOrderResponse">
        </operation>
        <operation name="getOrders">
            </input wsam:Action="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/getOrdersRequest" message="tns:getOrders">
            </output wsam:Action="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/getOrdersResponse" message="tns:getOrdersResponse">
        </operation>
    </portType>
    <binding name="OrderServiceImplPortBinding" type="tns:OrderService">
        </soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="rpc">
        <operation name="addOrder">
            </soap:operation soapAction="">
            <input>
                </soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/">
            </input>
            <output>
                </soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/">
            </output>
        </operation>
        <operation name="getOrders">
            </soap:operation soapAction="">
            <input>
                </soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/">
            </input>
            <output>
                </soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://ws.memorynotfound.com/">
            </output>
        </operation>
    </binding>
    <service name="OrderServiceImplService">
        <port name="OrderServiceImplPort" binding="tns:OrderServiceImplPortBinding">
            </soap:address location="http://localhost:8888/service/order">
        </port>
    </service>
</definitions>

Web Service Clients

Now let’s see how we can consume a web service.

Consuming JAX-WS-SOAP Web Service

package com.memorynotfound.client;

import com.memorynotfound.ws.OrderService;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.Service;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class GreetingClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        URL wsdlUrl = new URL("http://localhost:8888/service/order?wsdl");
        QName qname = new QName("http://ws.memorynotfound.com/", "OrderServiceImplService");
        Service service = Service.create(wsdlUrl, qname);
        OrderService orderService = service.getPort(OrderService.class);

        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(orderService.getOrders()));
        System.out.println("Order completed: " + orderService.addOrder("Mother Board"));
    }
}

Consuming JAX-WS-SOAP Web Service From WSDL

Most of the time when you’re consuming a soap web service you don’t have the source files. Don’t worry you can easily generate these sources using the WSDL file with the help of wsimport.

Open your terminal and enter the following:

The wsimport is the command and needs to be on the class path in order to execute it.
The -keep option will save the source files to disk.
The -verbose option is optional this will print out more information, very handy when you don’t receive any files or get an error.

wsimport -keep -verbose http://localhost:8888/service/order?wsdl

This will generate the necessary files to consume the web service. Note that in my eyes this sometimes generates the wrong data structures and that it needs a little bit of tweaking to get it right. But for simple situations like this it is oké.

Generated JAX-WS Soap endpoint using wsimport

package com.memorynotfound.client;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebResult;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import javax.xml.ws.Action;

/**
 * This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI.
 * JAX-WS RI 2.2.4-b01
 * Generated source version: 2.2
 * 
 */
@WebService(name = "OrderService", targetNamespace = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/")
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
public interface OrderService {

    /**
     * 
     * @param arg0
     * @return
     *     returns boolean
     */
    @WebMethod
    @WebResult(partName = "return")
    @Action(input = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/addOrderRequest", output = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/addOrderResponse")
    public boolean addOrder(
            @WebParam(name = "arg0", partName = "arg0")
            String arg0);

    /**
     * 
     * @return
     *     returns net.java.dev.jaxb.array.StringArray
     */
    @WebMethod
    @WebResult(partName = "return")
    @Action(input = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/getOrdersRequest", output = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/OrderService/getOrdersResponse")
    public String[] getOrders();

}

Generated JAX-WS Soap endpoint implementation using wsimport

package com.memorynotfound.client;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.Service;
import javax.xml.ws.WebEndpoint;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceClient;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature;

/**
 * This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI.
 * JAX-WS RI 2.2.4-b01
 * Generated source version: 2.2
 * 
 */
@WebServiceClient(name = "OrderServiceImplService", targetNamespace = "http://ws.memorynotfound.com/", wsdlLocation = "http://localhost:8888/service/order?wsdl")
public class OrderServiceImplService extends Service {

    private final static URL ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION;
    private final static WebServiceException ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_EXCEPTION;
    private final static QName ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_QNAME = new QName("http://ws.memorynotfound.com/", "OrderServiceImplService");

    static {
        URL url = null;
        WebServiceException e = null;
        try {
            url = new URL("http://localhost:8888/service/order?wsdl");
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            e = new WebServiceException(ex);
        }
        ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION = url;
        ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_EXCEPTION = e;
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService() {
        super(__getWsdlLocation(), ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_QNAME);
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService(WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(__getWsdlLocation(), ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_QNAME, features);
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService(URL wsdlLocation) {
        super(wsdlLocation, ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_QNAME);
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService(URL wsdlLocation, WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(wsdlLocation, ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_QNAME, features);
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName) {
        super(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
    }

    public OrderServiceImplService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName, WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(wsdlLocation, serviceName, features);
    }

    /**
     * 
     * @return
     *     returns OrderService
     */
    @WebEndpoint(name = "OrderServiceImplPort")
    public OrderService getOrderServiceImplPort() {
        return super.getPort(new QName("http://ws.memorynotfound.com/", "OrderServiceImplPort"), OrderService.class);
    }

    /**
     * 
     * @param features
     *     A list of {@link javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature} to configure on the proxy.  Supported features not in the features parameter will have their default values.
     * @return
     *     returns OrderService
     */
    @WebEndpoint(name = "OrderServiceImplPort")
    public OrderService getOrderServiceImplPort(WebServiceFeature... features) {
        return super.getPort(new QName("http://ws.memorynotfound.com/", "OrderServiceImplPort"), OrderService.class, features);
    }

    private static URL __getWsdlLocation() {
        if (ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_EXCEPTION!= null) {
            throw ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_EXCEPTION;
        }
        return ORDERSERVICEIMPLSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION;
    }

}

Using the generated endpoints

package com.memorynotfound.client;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class GreetingClient {

    public static void main(String... args){
        OrderServiceImplService orderServiceImplService = new OrderServiceImplService();
        OrderService orderService = orderServiceImplService.getOrderServiceImplPort();

        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(orderService.getOrders()));
        System.out.println("Order added: " + orderService.addOrder("Keyboard"));
    }
}

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