Asynchronous web services calls with JAX-WS: Use wsimport support for asynchrony or roll my own?

Question

There is an excellent article by Young Yang that explains how to use wsimport to create web service client artifacts that have asynchronous web service calls. Asynchrony re

Answer 1

I know that it does not reach the prompted question, but just complementing one information included on question:

"Instead you use build tools like Ant or Maven to include this binding when wsimport is executed on the WSDL."

It is possible generate the asynchronous client by a adding a custom xml file using the option -b to the wsimport:

Example:

wsimport -p helloAsyncClient -keep http://localhost:8080/helloservice?wsdl -b customAsync.xml

The customAsync.xml content:

        true

It is just one more way to generate asynchronous client beyond by using ant or maven :)