Web Service Standalone Client

[JavaEnquirer]

I'm rather confused by all of the documentation available on the
subject of Java and Web Services. What I'd like to be able to do is
simply call a web service from a stand alone Java desktop application.
About all I can work out is that I require some jaxrpc jar in my class
path ( do I need all three that come with jwsdp-2.0 ) ?

Could anyone point me towards some simple code examples of how to call
a web service, preferably, one that calls a trivial publically
available WS so that I can test it.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Venky]

If you are not that particular on using jaxrpc, then I would suggest
you to use jakarta axis to implement your web services. I found
"jakarta axis" (http://ws.apache.org/axis/) very simple to implement
web services. You can download the software and can run the examples
given with it.

 

[JavaEnquirer]

Thank you Venky.