How to get response from SOAP endpoint in java?

Question

I am very new to SOAP, so was looking into some programs online, this is what I came up with but I get a null response, must be some silly thing, but need little help

Pl

Answer 1

What you want to do is auto-generate Java code for this web service. The WSDL is here: http://www.webservicex.net/periodictable.asmx?wsdl

In Java, the tool to auto-generate the code is wsimport. You'll want to use something like this:

wsimport http://www.webservicex.net/periodictable.asmx?wsdl -p com.company.whateveruwant -Xnocompile -d . -keep

This will put the code you want in the specified package (here com.company.whateveruwant).

From there, all you have to do is simply invoke the SOAP method like a normal Java library:

PeriodictableSoap soap = new Periodictable().getPeriodictableSoap();
System.out.println(soap.getAtomicNumber("Iron"));

This prints out:

  26IronFe55.84733007.91.64000000000000011.1718087874