An easy way to generate Java web services clients without using Axis

Question

I have always used the creation of a web service in Eclipse WTP to create my web service clients due to its relative ease of use.

However, in the last couple of years, when I learned more about this, I saw a mistake in my ways.

I read that you need to use one of the many other java web service client platforms such as CXF, Metro, etc.

At this point, I don’t really care about which platform I use if it is not Axis.

My question is: WTP toolkit makes it easy to create web service clients in Java. Are there similar tools, scripts, programs, or tutorials that have the same usability?

I don’t have time to learn all the intricacies of SOAP, RPC, etc., so keep in mind that I don’t really try to be lazy, how pragmatic I am.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

SoapUI can generate soap clients for many multiple explicit soap stacks, such as axes 1 and 2, xfire, GStep, JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JBoss WS, Oracle Proxy, cxf, .Net, GStep. Here is a tutorial on how to do this.