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jyo
jyo

Reputation: 345

How to generate an xml file using webservices in Java?

Can we generate an xml file using webservices in Java, and if so how?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2294

Answers (3)

bdoughan
bdoughan

Reputation: 149007

There are two Java Web Service Standards:

  • Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)
  • Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)

Each spec has multiple implementations. GlassFish is the reference implementation for both these standards.

You can either interact directly with XML, or with POJOs that are converted to XML via an XML binding layer. The standard binding layer for JAX-WS and JAX-RS is Java Architecture for XML binding (JAXB).

For an example of a JAX-RS Webservice check out:

Upvotes: 2

Andreas Dolk
Andreas Dolk

Reputation: 114767

Generating XML files has nothing to do with webservices. The common SOAP based webservices communicate with messages written in XML. So to call a webservice, you'll have to create a XML document that implements some xml schema and send the xml document to the servers address. And you won't need files, usually the XML documents are created in memory and not written to files.

Apache Axis2 is a quite powerful library that takes care of most of the marshalling/unmarshalling and communication stuff.

Upvotes: 2

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Reputation: 75376

Create a web service (e.g. using Java 6 annotations) and let the annotated method return a DOM tree transformed to a string.

Upvotes: 1

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