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Using Web Service Explorer to test a Web service
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Using Web Service
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By Kathy Chan December 22, 2005 |
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This document is one of a series of tutorials to
demonstrate the use of the Web Services tools in the Web Tools PlatformProject using a WTP 1.0 driver. |
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This tutorial shows how to use the Web Service Explorer to
test a Web service via native WSDL and SOAP. It demonstrates how to use the Web Services Explorer to invoke operations on a Web service named " <a href="http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po;jsessionid=0G-Gfc2ErUGlADxkgZE84pcE(QHyMHiRM)?key=uuid:889A05A5-5C03-AD9B-D456-0E54A527EDEE"> Delayed Stock Quote </a>" as available from<a href="http://www.xmethods.net/">XMethods</a> on the internet. |
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The only prerequisite is that you be connected to the
internet. If you are connected via a firewall, you can use the Internet preferences page (choose Preferences -> Internet from the main menu). Otherwise, you can begin with a completely fresh workspace and no installedservers. |
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Using the Web Services Explorerto test a Web service |
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</td> | The Web Services Explorer is a JSP Web application hosted
on the Apache Tomcat servlet engine contained within Eclipse. It is integrated into Eclipse on two levels: visually by virtue of it running in the embedded browser, and logically by virtue of it running as a thread in the Eclipse JRE. Though not demonstrated in this scenario, this latter type of integration allows the Web Services Explorer to access resources in the workspace, write resources into the workspace, and launch various Web services wizards. </td> </tr> |
</td> | The Web Services Explorer provides three key services to
the user: </td> </tr> |
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<img src="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/ws/1.0/tutorials/WebServiceExplorer/images/note.gif" alt="Note: " border="0" width="62" height="13"></table> |