 | Level: Intermediate John Robertson (jtrobert@au1.ibm.com), Staff Software Engineer, IBM
Fiona Lam (fionalam@au1.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
Yaqian Fang (yaqfang@au1.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
Angela Baird (angbaird@au1.ibm.com), Angela Baird, IBM
Elena Nossova, Analyst/Programmer, Independent
18 Sep 2009 Use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 to
create a stand-alone Web services application that can be run from the console. In this tutorial, the second in the
series, continue getting familiar with the Eclipse IDE and its built-in feature the TCP/IP Monitor. View the
network traffic between server and client applications and then run the applications from the command line.
Before you start
About this series
This tutorial series demonstrates how to create a stand-alone Web services server and client application that you
can easily run from the command line with Java SE 6 rather than from within web application server containers. Using a simple
Hello World example, you will leverage the Eclipse IDE, Java SE 6, and Apache Ant to easily create fully functioning Web services
server and client applications. You will also use the TCP/IP Monitor to examine the communication traffic between the server
and client, and use the Eclipse Web Services Explorer tool to test the Web Service.
About this tutorial
This tutorial, Part 2 of the series, describes the creation of a stand-alone Web service client application to communicate with the stand-alone Web
service you developed and deployed in Part 1. You will be taken step-by-step through the development and deployment of the Web service
client application using the Eclipse IDE, Java SE 6 and Ant.
Objectives
After completing this tutorial you should know:
- How to create the client side of a Web service, using the Eclipse IDE to generate and compile the code using Java SE 6.
- How to use the Ant Java-based build tool within the Eclipse IDE to run a special Java command to generate some of the code
from the WSDL published in Part 1 of the series.
- How to use the TCP/IP Monitor within the Eclipse IDE to observe, capture and validate the Web service's SOAP traffic between
the server and client.
- How to run the server and client applications directly from the command line outside of the Eclipse IDE.
Prerequisites
This tutorial includes simple steps written for beginning- to intermediate-level Java programmers with some working knowledge of the Java
language and Ant builds. Novice to more advanced Java developers will gain some knowledge of how to build, deploy, and run stand-alone
Web services servers and distributed clients to provide firewall-friendly remote communications and applications processing.
System requirements
To follow the examples, you need to download:
You don't have to download Ant, as its functionality is bundled with Eclipse. This tutorial uses the Ganymede Package for the Eclipse
IDE for Java EE Developers.
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