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Erratic
Erratic

Reputation: 459

WSDL Generation Tools

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably open source) tool for creating WSDL files for some soap web services?

I've tried playing around with some of the eclipse plug ins available and was less than impressed with what I found.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 36635

Answers (5)

info
info

Reputation: 1

Nice tool can be found as SAAS solution at www.cofiq.com. Its strong point is the datamodel repository from which WSDL and REST JSON can be generated and impact analysis on datamodel changes.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Sharek
Michael Sharek

Reputation: 5069

As mentioned above, probably the easiest thing to do is use Apache CXF or Apache Axis2 to automatically generate your WSDL for you.

If you have downloaded the Java EE version of Eclipse, you should be able to create a Dynamic Web Project with the Axis2 facets. If you create a simple Java class in the project, you should be able to right-click on it, and choose Web Services->Create Web Service. That should automatically create an Axis2 service for you.

WSDL would then be available from some URL like: http://localhost/axis/{yourservice}?WSDL

Upvotes: 5

John Greeley
John Greeley

Reputation: 131

One of the more interesting tools for bypassing all the associated headaches with WSDL is the XSLT script created by Arjen Poutsma (the lead developer of Spring Web Services):

http://blog.springframework.com/arjen/archives/2006/07/27/xslt-that-transforms-from-xsd-to-wsdl/

Basically it allows you to develop simple schemas that correspond to your desired operations (i.e. <BuyItem> and <BuyItemResponse>) and then generate all the associated WSDL crap from the XSD. I highly recommend it if you are interested in 'contract-first' web-services but the idea of using a WSDL as the starting point for that contract makes you feel green.

Upvotes: 4

toluju
toluju

Reputation: 4107

Depends on which language you're working in, but if you're active in Java then I'd recommend looking at Apache CXF. It's a pretty solid framework for publishing java code as a SOAP web service. It also includes a tool for directly generating WSDL files: java2wsdl

Upvotes: 0

pjesi
pjesi

Reputation: 4061

I am tired of generating massive amounts of files on the filesystem just to transport over SOAP. Now I use Apache CXF for both WS producers and consumers and let it handle the WSDL/stubs generation dynamically.

Upvotes: 2

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