Thursday 27 October 2011

WebSphere AS: RAD vs WSDL2Java for JAX-RPC client SOAP bindings

I've been doing a bit of work recently with JAX-RPC on WebSphere Application Server 6.1. This is hardly cutting edge software (WAS 8 is out; JAX-RPC has been superceded by JAX-WS) but platforms can have a long shelf-life in the enterprise.

This post describes how to migrate from client bindings developed using RAD to automated generation via Ant. JAX-RPC isn't restricted to consuming SOAP in WARs, but this post confines itself to that topic.

For convencience, the sample code reuses the MaintainAddress.wsdl from a previous post.