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Static case
Most clients will start with a WSDL file, and generate some stubs using jbossws tools like wsconsume . This usually gives a mass of files, one of which is the top of the tree. This is the service implementation class.
The generated implementation class can be recognised as it will have two public constructors, one with no arguments and one with two arguments, representing the wsdl location (a java.net.URL) and the service name (a javax.xml.namespace.QName) respectively.
Usually you will use the no-argument constructor. In this case the WSDL location and service name are those found in the WSDL. These are set implicitly from the WebServiceClient annotation that decorates the generated class.
The following code snippet shows the generated constructors from the generated class:
// Generated Service Class
@WebServiceClient(name="StockQuoteService", targetNamespace="http://example.com/stocks", wsdlLocation="http://example.com/stocks.wsdl")
public class StockQuoteService extends javax.xml.ws.Service
{
public StockQuoteService()
{
super(new URL("http://example.com/stocks.wsdl"), new QName("http://example.com/stocks", "StockQuoteService"));
}
public StockQuoteService(String wsdlLocation, QName serviceName)
{
super(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
}
...
}
Section #Dynamic Proxy explains how to obtain a port from the service and how to invoke an operation on the port. If you need to work with the XML payload directly or with the XML representation of the entire SOAP message, have a look at #Dispatch.
Dynamic case
In the dynamic case, when nothing is generated, a web service client uses Service.create to create Service instances, the following code illustrates this process.
URL wsdlLocation = new URL("http://example.org/my.wsdl");
QName serviceName = new QName("http://example.org/sample", "MyService");
Service service = Service.create(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
This is the nastiest way to work with JBossWs. Older versions have extensive details on DII as it was then known.