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<h1>Web Service Client Tutorial</h1>
<p>
<b>By Kathy Chan</b>
<br />
Feb 25, 2005
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
<br></br>
<p>
This document is a one of a series of tutorials to
demonstrate the use of the Web Services tools in the Web
Tools Platform Project.
</p>
<p>
This tutorial shows how to create a Web serivce client to a
deployed Web service created in
<a href="TopDownWebService.html">
Creating top down Web service
</a>
.
</p>
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<h2>Getting Started</h2>
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<p>
Follow the instruction at
<a href="GettingStartedWebService.html">
Getting Started with Web Service
</a>
before proceeding with the tutorial.
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<h2>Create a Web service Client</h2>
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<li>
Select the AreaServiceSOAP.wsdl file in
AreaProject\WebContent\wsdl created in
<a href="TopDownWebService.html">
Creating top down Web service
</a>
. <br/><b>Do not</b> select the AreaService.wsdl
file in AreaProject\WebContent.
</li>
<li>
Open File -> New -> Other... -> Web Services -> Web
Service Client.
</li>
<li>
Select
<b>Test the Web service</b>
and
<b>Overwrite files without warning</b>
.
</li>
<br></br>
<img border="0"
SRC="resources/WebServiceClient/image52P.JPG" />
<li>Click Next.</li>
<br />
<img border="0"
SRC="resources/WebServiceClient/imageGA1.JPG" />
<li>
Type in
<b>AreaProjectClient</b>
as the name of the Client project.
<br />
If you want to choose a server different from the one
defaulted by the wizard, click the
<b>Edit</b>
button to:
<a href="SelectServer.html">select a server</a>
.
</li>
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<img border="0"
SRC="resources/WebServiceClient/imageF9I.JPG" />
<li>
Click
<b>Finish</b>
.
</li>
.
<li>
It will take about one minute for the wizard to assemble
the Web service client Web projects, start Apache
Tomcat, and deploy the projects to Tomcat. Once
finished, the generated Sample JSP Web application will
appear in the browser view.
</li>
<li>
Under
<b>Methods</b>
, click on
<b>calculateRectArea</b>
.
</li>
<br></br>
<img border="0"
SRC="resources/WebServiceClient/imageC2R.JPG" />
<li>
Under
<b>Inputs</b>
, enter
<tt>2.0</tt>
and
<tt>5.0</tt>
into the height and width entry field.
</li>
<li>
Click on
<b>Invoke</b>
. In the Result view, you should get a response of
<b>10.0</b>
.
</li>
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<img border="0"
SRC="resources/WebServiceClient/image2L9.JPG" />
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