How to use the webservice-client classes generated with Eclipse?

Question

I used eclipse Helios to create a Web Service Client for consuming an axis 1.4 web service.
It generated 2 packages:
1 - datamodel.
2 - client.

Inside client package there are 5 classes:
1- ServiceName
2- ServiceNameProxy
3- ServiceNameService
4- ServiceNameServiceLocator
5- ServiceNameSoapBindingStub

I need to Know what are these ? AND
How to call the web service methods with parameters?

Thanks in advance

Autogenous

Answer 1

I am very new to Web Services and I can't give a good explanation of what those classes are, but, I believe you can use the Proxy class to call the Web Service methods.

public class TestClient{
    public static void main(String []args){
        ServiceNameProxy proxy = new ServiceNameProxy();
        proxy.setEndpoint("http://localhost:8080/ServiceName/asdf");//defined in wsdl

        int i = proxy.webServiceMethod(new String(), new String());
    }
}

webServiceMethod() would be whatever the name of the method is defined in the service.

Koran

how to handle authentication when using proxy I used stub and can set username and password – Autogenous

@Fahad please use punctuation.. I can't understand your comment – Coarsegrained

I had the same interrogation. Hey, Eclipse and Axis people, the generated Java classes miss Javadoc ! This answer works ! And the code is simple. :-) I was a little puzzled by the setEndpoint line, so let me precise this. The address passed here is the Web Service's address, not the address of the WSDL. The "asdf" bit and the comment defined in wsdl create more confusion than explanation. – Necrose