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| <h1>Web Service Client Supporting Flexible Projects</h1> |
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| <b>By Kathy Chan</b> |
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| Aug 4, 2005 |
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| <h2>Introduction</h2> |
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| This document is one of a series of tutorials to |
| demonstrate the use of the Web Services tools in the Web |
| Tools Platform Project with the <b>M5 drivers</b>. |
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| This tutorial shows how to create a Web serivce client to a |
| deployed Web service created in |
| <a href="TopDownWebService.html"> |
| Creating a top down Web service |
| </a>. |
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| <h2>Create a Web service Client</h2> |
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| <li> |
| Select the <b>AreaServiceSOAP.wsdl</b> file in the |
| <b>AreaProject\area\WebContent\wsdl</b> folder created in |
| <a href="TopDownWebService.html"> |
| Creating a top down Web service |
| </a> tutorial. |
| <br/><b>Do not</b> select the AreaService.wsdl |
| file in AreaProject\area\WebContent. |
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| <li> |
| Open <b>File -> New -> Other... -> Web Services -> Web |
| Service Client</b>. |
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| <li>Click <b>Next</b>.</li> |
| <li> |
| Select |
| <b>Test the Web service</b> |
| and |
| <b>Overwrite files without warning</b>. |
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| <li>Click <b>Next</b>.</li> |
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| Click <b>Next</b> and accept the defaults on the <b>Web Service Selection Page</b>. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| On the <b>Client Environment Configuration</b> page, type in |
| <b>AreaProjectClient</b> |
| as the name of the Client project and <b>areaClient</b> as the Client module. |
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| 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>. |
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| Click <b>Finish</b>. |
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| <li> |
| It will take about one minute for the wizard to assemble |
| the Web service client Web projects, start Apache |
| Tomcat, and deploy the project to Tomcat. Once |
| finished, the generated Sample JSP Web application will |
| appear in the browser view. |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| Under |
| <b>Methods</b>, click on |
| <b>calculateRectArea</b> |
| . |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| Under |
| <b>Inputs</b>, enter |
| <tt>2.0</tt> |
| and |
| <tt>5.0</tt> |
| into the height and width entry field. |
| </li> |
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| Click on |
| <b>Invoke</b>. In the <b>Result</b> view, you should get a response of |
| <b>10.0</b>. |
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