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Can you tell the BEST way how to test & use Web Services in Eclipse ?
I had little experience with web services, that is, I used an Apache Axis plugin that generated the client stub.
I do not need to write my own web services right now, only use existing ones.
I have Eclipse Java EE, I can download any plugin.
What would you suggest?
To test web services, the best tool is IMHO soapUI which is available as an eclipse plugin and is superior by far to any other tool I’ve used.
To use web services, it’s worth noting that Eclipse has now a JAX-WS Tools Project (in the Web Tools Incubator) which is using the Apache CXF implementation (please, let Axis 2 die).
To install this project, point your Eclipse update site manager to The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project update site – http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates. When you access the update site, you should see the CXF Web Services (Incubator) feature available in the listing:
Once installed and configured (Window > Preferences… > Web Services > CXF 2.x Preferences), you will be able to use the CXF runtime to test web services (and / or to create a CXF Web Services Project, see image below even if this is not your first goal).
(source: corneliadavis.com)
You will find some video clips showing you how to create and deploy Bottom-Up and Top-Down Web services using JAX-WS Tools here.