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Asked: 2026-05-18T10:50:30+00:00

I’m creating a Spring WS client. I have a huge WSDL from a third-party

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I’m creating a Spring WS client. I have a huge WSDL from a third-party company. They provide a set of classes that maps to their WSDL via the Axis’ WSDL2Java. I don’t want to use Axis or any dependencies from them.

Since this is a web service client, I’m free to choose any framework. My problem is how do I generate a mapping class for the WSDL without using Axis’s WSDL2Java. Am I stuck with manipulating pure XML? Take note I’m using Spring WS.

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Is it true if the service provider has built their service with Axis 1, you’re basically stuck with making a client that’s also based on Axis 1? I read it from this answer JAX-WS client with Axis service. I thought web services are supposed to be decoupled or at least independent from the platform that it was created, allowing you to have a .Net based web service to be accessed from a Java based client and vice versa?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to use Spring-WS, then your best bet is to use the wsimport tool that ships with Java 6 (or use the JAX-WS RI, if you’re on Java5). This will generate JAX-WS stubs for the web service. Included in these stubs will be standard JAXB bindings for the WSDL’s schema, and those can be used with Spring-WS (wsimport will generate other service stubs that you won’t need for Spring-WS).

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