wsdl2java

This is a very short post on installation and command line interface for wsdl2java. I wanted to explore the command line interface and understand the tool more since calling wsdl2java from maven is somewhat magic to me.

Installation

• Download apache-cxf from http://cxf.apache.org/download.html
• Extract .zip file and put location of extracted bin directory in your PATH
  E.g. I did the following
  export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Apache-CXF/apache-cxf-2.7.7/bin
• Try out wsdl2java on command prompt. This should return the usage.

WSDL

• Get hold of the wsdl, in this blog we are using airport-information which is a slightly non-trivial wsdl from http://free-web-services.com/

Generate fully annotated Java code from WSDL

• Run following to generate Java code
  
  

  	macair:airportInfo nj$ wsdl2java airport.wsdl
  	macair:airportInfo nj$ ll
  	total 48
  	-rw-r--r-- 1 nj staff 21K 10 Nov 19:03 airport.wsdl
  	drwxr-xr-x 3 nj staff 102B 10 Nov 20:38 net
  	macair:airportInfo nj$ tree
  	.
  	├── airport.wsdl
  	└── net
  	└── webservicex
  	├── Airport.java
  	├── AirportHttpGet.java
  	├── AirportHttpPost.java
  	├── AirportSoap.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByAirportCode.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByAirportCodeResponse.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByCityOrAirportName.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByCityOrAirportNameResponse.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByCountry.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByCountryResponse.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByISOCountryCode.java
  	├── GetAirportInformationByISOCountryCodeResponse.java
  	├── ObjectFactory.java
  	└── package-info.java
  	2 directories, 15 files

  view raw wsd2java Output hosted with ❤ by GitHub

More on wsdl2java help can be found online.

In future blogs I plan to use this wsdl and make a proper application out of it to get airport information from around the world, if I get free time ;-)