Consuming the Simple Greeting Service
To use your Web Service you need a client. For the purposes of this exercise, this client will be a standard Java class with a main method. However, it could also be a J2EE component such as a JSP or EJB. The differences with such clients are discussed later.
To call the Web Service from a client, you could use low-level APIs to create and send SOAP messages. However, one of the main intentions of JAX-RPC is to provide the developer with a familiar development model. Hence, you will again use the tools to create a stub (or proxy) that represents the service for the client. The stub exposes Java methods that match the SOAP operations supported by the server. The client application can simply call these Java ...
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