Web Service Clients

This feature is supported in the Ultimate edition only.

In this section:

Introduction

With IntelliJ IDEA, you can develop the client side for Web services of the following most common types:

GlassFish/JAXWS2.X RI/Netro 1.X/JWSDP2.0 for developing JAX-WS Web services clients.
Apache Axis for developing Apache Axis Web services clients.
JAX-RS for developing RESTful Web Services clients.

You can also enable and manually configure support of the following additional WS engines:

Developing Web services client applications

To develop a Web services client application, follow these general steps:

Create a Java module and enable support of the desired Web services client in it.
Generate the client-side XML-Java binding.
Modify the generated code to have the client properly initialized.
To enable data exchange with the Web service, do one of the following:
- Declare the variables that will contain the request to the service and the service response.
- Have IntelliJ IDEA generate the Web service invocation.
Populate the module with the necessary classes and methods to implement the user's interface.
Run the application.

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External Links:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/docs/Web_Services_with_IntelliJ_IDEA.pdf

Last modified: 21 March 2017