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Chapter 2. Developing a Consumer Without a WSDL Contract

Abstract

You do not need a WSDL contract to develop a service consumer. You can create a service consumer from an annotated SEI. Along with the SEI you need to know the address at which the endpoint exposing the service is published, the QName of the service element that defines the endpoint exposing the service, and the QName of the port element defining the endpoint on which your consumer makes requests. This information can be specified in the SEI's annotations or provided separately.
To create a consumer without a WSDL contract you must do the following:
  1. Create a Service object for the service on which the consumer will invoke operations.
  2. Add a port to the Service object.
  3. Get a proxy for the service using the Service object's getPort() method.

2.1. Creating a Service Object

Overview

The javax.xml.ws.Service class represents the wsdl:service element which contains the definition of all of the endpoints that expose a service. As such, it provides methods that allow you to get endpoints, defined by wsdl:port elements, that are proxies for making remote invocations on a service.
Note
The Service class provides the abstractions that allow the client code to work with Java types as opposed to working with XML documents.

The create() methods

The Service class has two static create() methods that can be used to create a new Service object. As shown in Example 2.1, “Service create() Methods”, both of the create() methods take the QName of the wsdl:service element the Service object will represent, and one takes a URI specifying the location of the WSDL contract.
Tip
All services publish their WSDL contracts. For SOAP/HTTP services the URI is usually the URI for the service appended with ?wsdl.

Example 2.1. Service create() Methods

public static Service create(URL wsdlLocation,
                             QName serviceName)
    throws WebServiceException;

public static Service create(QName serviceName)
    throws WebServiceException;
The value of the serviceName parameter is a QName. The value of its namespace part is the target namespace of the service. The service's target namespace is specified in the targetNamespace property of the @WebService annotation. The value of the QName's local part is the value of wsdl:service element's name attribute. You can determine this value in one of the following ways:
  1. It is specified in the serviceName property of the @WebService annotation.
  2. You append Service to the value of the name property of the @WebService annotation.
  3. You append Service to the name of the SEI.

Example

Example 2.2, “Creating a Service Object” shows code for creating a Service object for the SEI shown in Example 1.7, “Fully Annotated SEI”.

Example 2.2. Creating a Service Object

package com.fusesource.demo;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.Service;

public class Client
{
public static void main(String args[])
  {
1    QName serviceName = new QName("http://demo.redhat.com", "stockQuoteReporter");
2    Service s = Service.create(serviceName);
   ...
  }
}
The code in Example 2.2, “Creating a Service Object” does the following:
1
Builds the QName for the service using the targetNamespace property and the name property of the @WebService annotation.
2
Calls the single parameter create() method to create a new Service object.
Note
Using the single parameter create() frees you from having any dependencies on accessing a WSDL contract.