How to Use a Web Service
Now that we have introduced Web services, let's play around and use one. To make life easy, let's go about this in a step-by-step process. These steps will be broken up between two sections.
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“Using SOAP”— The first example is all about getting SOAP installed on our machines. We will set up a SOAP server to work alongside the Tomcat JSP Web server. We're using the SOAP server component of the Apache SOAP 2.2 Java API. Once we have this server up, we will build a very simple Web service to run on the local machine.
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“Roaming the Internet”— The second example will show how to call up a Web service that isn't on the local machine.
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Using SOAP
SOAP is really the core of Web services. In these examples, HTTP is the ...
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