Eclipse WebService

[Peter K]

Hi

is there a "webservice plugin" for Eclipse?

I would like to find a plugin where I can declare a class and its methods
as a web-service, and then select a menu item "make webservice" or
something, and have all the necessary xml/wsdl created.

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Tomek]

is there a "webservice plugin" for Eclipse?

I would like to find a plugin where I can declare a class and its methods
as a web-service, and then select a menu item "make webservice" or
something, and have all the necessary xml/wsdl created.

Try Eclipse STP http://www.eclipse.org/stp/

 

[Manish Pandit]

Hi

is there a "webservice plugin" for Eclipse?

I would like to find a plugin where I can declare a class and its methods
as a web-service, and then select a menu item "make webservice" or
something, and have all the necessary xml/wsdl created.

Thanks,
Peter

What you are trying to achieve is called Bottom-up Java Bean Web
Service. If you have eclipse with WTP (Web-Tools Platform), you can
click New -> Other-> Web Services -> Web Service. This will open up a
dialog where you can select the Java Bean to be used as the interface.
Click OK, and Eclipse will create a new web services project with the
WSDL, stubs and the other housekeeping code. It will even prompt to
start a server to deploy the generated service

You might want to include other libraries and projects to this project
for the code to work right (like the dependencies, etc.).

-cheers,
Manish

 

[Peter K]

What you are trying to achieve is called Bottom-up Java Bean Web
Service. If you have eclipse with WTP (Web-Tools Platform), you can
click New -> Other-> Web Services -> Web Service. This will open up a
dialog where you can select the Java Bean to be used as the interface.
Click OK, and Eclipse will create a new web services project with the
WSDL, stubs and the other housekeeping code. It will even prompt to
start a server to deploy the generated service

You might want to include other libraries and projects to this project
for the code to work right (like the dependencies, etc.).

Thanks for the advice. I found "WTP" on the net, after "Tomek" mentioned
"STP" (which I still haven't yet investigated).

It does seem WTP will achieve what I need (in fact much more I think) -
although it doesn't really seem "intuitive" to use yet. I have managed to
get a couple of do-nothing web-services compiled and installed under
Tomcat, but sometimes when I try to create a web-service I get a "class not
found" error.... probabaly some setup step or something I forget to perform
on occasion.


Thanks,

Peter