New to CXF - question with Sample

[John <li...@johndubchak.com>]

Hi,

I am new to CXF and trying to get familiar with it by running some of 
the samples and trying my hand at writing a couple of simple webservices.

The question I have relates to the basic, HelloWorld, sample.  I have 
created the server and it runs fine - dependencies are set up correctly.

However, when working on the client, there is a dependency on the 
HelloWorld.class file, which I assume to be the actual remote webservice 
interface.

How, in a real world scenario, does a client get a hold of this?  My 
assumption is that I would get the WSDL for the remote service and then 
do a wsdl2java on it and compile the generated interface as part of my 
client application.

Is this correct?  If not, what is recommended?

Thanks very much.
John

Re: New to CXF - question with Sample

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

In general, the client would use wsdl2java to generate it's own classes.  
However, within your enterprise, you can optimize things a bit.   For 
example:

common.jar -
    Stores the wsdl contract.
    Runs wsdl2java and generates all the java bits

server.jar/war - depends on common.jar
    Contains the "Impl" that implements the interfaces in the common jar


Dan



On Thursday 28 August 2008 10:47:34 am John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to CXF and trying to get familiar with it by running some of
> the samples and trying my hand at writing a couple of simple webservices.
>
> The question I have relates to the basic, HelloWorld, sample.  I have
> created the server and it runs fine - dependencies are set up correctly.
>
> However, when working on the client, there is a dependency on the
> HelloWorld.class file, which I assume to be the actual remote webservice
> interface.
>
> How, in a real world scenario, does a client get a hold of this?  My
> assumption is that I would get the WSDL for the remote service and then
> do a wsdl2java on it and compile the generated interface as part of my
> client application.
>
> Is this correct?  If not, what is recommended?
>
> Thanks very much.
> John



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