JAX-WS Call WS using Maven

Use Maven to Generate all Stubs using "wsimport" utility . After generating the webservice you can call the service using Java class. This method will can be easily reused , you just have to use different wsdl url every time you have to consume the webservice and modify the java code , it's light weight and no need to use any third party libraries . So you will need the following

• wsdl file
• pom.xml
• Java Class

First step is to copy the wsdl file and place it in the src/wsdl directory
Setup the pom.xml pom.xml
Folder : Project root dir

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>com.myws.testconsumews</groupId>
 <artifactId>TestWSConsume</artifactId>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

 <name>Test Webservice</name>
 <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
 
 
 <build>
  
  <plugins>
   
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.7</version>
    <executions>
     
      <execution>
      <id>generate-stubs</id>
      <phase>generate-sources</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>wsimport</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
          <wsdlDirectory>src/wsdl</wsdlDirectory>
       <wsdlFiles>
        <wsdlFile>myservice.wsdl</wsdlFile>
       </wsdlFiles>
       <wsdlLocation>http://localhost:8080/TestWS/myservice?wsdl</wsdlLocation>
        <sourceDestDir>src/main/java</sourceDestDir>
                       <packageName>com.myservice.proxy</packageName>
                  </configuration>
       
     </execution> 
    </executions>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
     <configuration>
     <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>

  </plugins>
 </build>
</project>

run "mvn generate-sources" command , this will generate the files in src/main/java folder . Its specified as <sourceDestDir>src/main/java</sourceDestDir> in pom.xml
Stubs are generated ,You can call the webservice with following Java program

package com.myservice.client;

import com.myservice.proxy.MyService;
import com.myservice.proxy.MyServiceService;

public class CallMyService {
 
 
 
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  MyServiceService mss = new MyServiceService();
  MyService serv = mss.getMyServicePort();
   
     System.out.println(serv.sayHello());
 }
 
 
  
}

Now that was simple right . So what if you want to generate numerous webservice clients for testing and scripting needs you can simply reuse the pom.xml ( change the wsdl file ) , generate the stubs and change the program to call the new webservice .
Note
If your webservice requires authentication , you can set that up as shown below

     ((BindingProvider) serv).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, userName);
      ((BindingProvider) serv).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, passWord);
          

Cheers, hope that was helpful