Question

A simple question, but could someone provide sample code as to how would someone call a web service from within the JBoss Seam framework, and process the results?

I need to be able to integrate with a search platform being provided by a private vendor who is exposing his functionality as a web service. So, I’m just looking for some guidance as to what the code for calling a given web service would look like.

(Any sample web service can be chosen as an example.)

Answer 1

There’s roughly a gajillion HTTP client libraries (Restlet is quite a bit more than that, but I already had that code snippet for something else), but they should all provide support for sending GET requests. Here’s a rather less featureful snippet that uses HttpClient from Apache Commons:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); HttpMethod method = new GetMethod('http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=restbook&query=HttpClient'); client.executeMethod(method);