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Keeping WSDL files up to date

I have imported a WSDL web service a couple of months ago and realized that when I call it using the same class files I run into an issue. After a reimport it works again. (Probably significant changes were made to the 3rd party service.)

Is there a a way to automatize this so for example every maven build would re-fetch the class files (if needed) so that we don't have to worry about this issue?

Thanks!

Solution

  • You could incorporate this plugin into your build to create classes based on teh wsdl. http://mojo.codehaus.org/jaxws-maven-plugin/wsimport-mojo.html

    This way based on the WSDL classes will be generated with every build. All you need to do is keep updating the WSDL in the source dir.

    Edit: Seems like this plugin can also download the WSDL file.

    Maven download or fetch the wsdl from the url to project directory