Generate SOAP Web Service client forms (Java)

Question

I have a Web Service accessible via SOAP. Let's assume it provides a method with the signature

sayHello(String name)

Of course, I have the WSDL describing the Web Service.

What I want to do now is to generate a client web application (war archive) with a GUI that provides a form to enter the parameter for the Web Service method. In case of the example, the form must just allow to enter the value for the "name" parameter. Then, a SOAP message must be assembled and sent to the WS.

Is there any way or any framework to generate such a webapp automatically!? The actual kind of the resulting webapp is not important, it may be a GWT webapp, JSF, plain Servlet with JSP or whatever. Even a plain HTML/JavaScript client app would be OK.

I mean, there are tools to generate CRUD forms out of data models, so there must be tools to create forms for Web Services, too...

I've been googling around for a long time, but the only thing I've found is a feature of Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/ws/M3/tutorials/WebServiceClient.html . Basically, this does what I want, but I'm looking for a more ..hm.. elegant way to do this ;-)

Thanks in advance,

Frank

Answer 1

What you are looking for is (I think) similar to what this site seems to do: link soaptest

As far as I know there is no framework that supports this out of the box.
All frameworks support the automatic generation of client stubs and artifacts and application developers use that to implement their functionality.
In your case create the HTML interface your self to test the web service.
Only .NET web services provide similar tool for testing link text