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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:39:30+00:00

I would like to know if anyone can recommend a good library to generate

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I would like to know if anyone can recommend a good library to generate java webservices stubs as clients.

Currently I’m using a product which has embedded a generator which only needs the WSDL and then creates the needed classes and methods.

My problems is it throws warnings and doesn’t create any method for some webservices I’m trying to use.

The real problem is it doesn’t explain what the problem is ( so I can go with the owner of the webservice and have it modified ) nor let me modify the ouput so I can probably fix the problem my self.

Yet, the owners of the webservices ( because this happens with several different ws ) say their ws runs fine and actually if I use soapUI they actually work!!!

I took a quick look at the libraries used by soapUI it self and I looks promising.

I know there is Axis which should do the work, but my concern is that my failing generator is using that library already ( which makes me thing it will fail again )

And lately I don’t know if these two libraries generate the java source stub or only have methods like 

Object [] args = ...;
service.inkvoke("updateCustomer", args );

When what I would like to have is something like: 

CustomerWs cws = ....
cws.updateCustomer(custId, custName, custAddress /*etc*/ );

So, anyone has a GOOD ws stubs generator that can recommend?

I’m about to handcode my own, but it will definitely take several days to be acceptable

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  1. Editorial Team

    What are you currently using? I use Axis Wsdl2Java as an Ant task. It generates the types of stubs you want. Works great, though setting up the classpath for running the build was a bit of a pain in Eclipse (there were a handful of jars I needed to track down and include). In my ant buildfile it looks like this:

    <taskdef name="axis-wsdl2java" classname="org.apache.axis.tools.ant.wsdl.Wsdl2javaAntTask" />
<target name="foo">
<axis-wsdl2java
              output="${build.dir}"
              testcase="false"
              verbose="true"
              typemappingversion="1.2"
              url="http://ws.domain.com/url/of/WebService?wsdl" />
<!-- Compile, etc... -->
</target>
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