[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: Newbie: problem creating web service cl ient

[Mark Hutchinson <mahutch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

I think you are running into this problem because you are trying to 
generate into a Java project. It looks like WTP only supports generating 
clients into Dynamic Web Projects or Java Utility Projects.

You can try generating your client into a Dynamic Web Project that 
targets Tomcat. For a tutorial on how to create a client into a Dynamic 
web project see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Creating_a_Java_Web_Service_Client

There is an enhancement request open to add support for generating Axis2 
clients into Java projects, see: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249922
I can't find any bugs or enhancements open for the original Axis 
runtime.  You can open an enhancement request for this, or vote for the 
Axis2 enhancement.

I think it is also a defect that you are getting some null pointer 
exception, rather than a more friendly message saying that java projects 
aren't supported.  (Or perhaps the wizard should not let you select a 
java project if it's not supported).  Please open a defect for this as 
well if you can't find one already open.

Hope this helps,
Mark

mike wrote:
> Hi Tilak,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to answer!
> Unfortunately, your answer did not help me much: I'm using the `web 
> service client' wizard that's available when right-clicking the java 
> project and then choosing new | other | web services | web service 
> client. This menu doesn't allow me to specify extension points, it hides 
> configuration details from the user. However, i get the error mentioned 
> earlier. For some other wsdl's the wizard operates fine.
>
> As a sideways question: why is it necessary to specify a SERVER (e.g. 
> tomcat 6) when creating a web service CLIENT using the aforementioned 
> wizard????
> (I'm a total newbie w.r.t. web services, so maybe I'm overlooking 
> something trivial or fundamental.)
>
> Bye
>
> Mike