I am starting on a new project with commercial vendor. I need to write an integration module in our application to consume commercial vendor's web service. So, WSDL is not controlled by us.
I think the general approach is to do a "Contract First" development and generate stubs from the WSDL file. I would like to know what technologies are available to do this? I would really like the simplest approach that works. We use Maven 3.0.3 and Spring 3.0.5 extensively. Can I use Spring WebServiceTemplate?
Please let me know if the question isn't clear or additional details are needed.
Thanks, Tapasvi
You can generate the java stubs with the maven plugin for JAX-WS. Then you can use the stubs in spring to expose them as a webservice. Luckily, it's quite simple :).
Just a suggestion, don't re-generate the stubs every time you build the project, as (obviously) you won't be able to add any code to the stubs, which is sometimes very useful. I made this mistake long time ago and it was quite painful, because I had to put code in places where it didn't belong. In the last few years I used a maven profile to generate the stubs on demand and then I merged them "manually" to add the extra code. Of course, this is only viable if the WSDL doesn't change very often.