Developing a web client

To use the web service, you must develop web client applications that consume the web service.

To develop web client applications:

  1. Generate WSDL Proxies.

    Generate WSDL Proxies from the WSDL file. On the client, these proxies form a local API that mirrors the data and functionality of the web service. The client uses this API to compose a SOAP message containing a request to invoke a BDE or BOI method.

    You can use several tools to generate WSDL Proxies. For Java applications, for example, you can use the proxy generator of Apache AXIS; see http://ws.apache.org/.

  2. Write client applications.

    Write a web client application that calls these WSDL Proxies.

Note: To test a web service without the necessity of implementing WSDL proxies and writing a dedicated web client application, you can use various web services testing and diagnostics toolkits. To test web services, you can also use more generic development environments, such as Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse.

The development of web clients is a standard web services practice. Describing this practice is not in the scope of this document.