I've used a bare-bones XWiki plugin to instantiate a webservice client using axis, then call that from velocity. XWiki is bundled with axis.jar, so there might be a more "native" way, but I've never seen it documented if there is.  I think there might be a way to Just Make It Happen in Groovy just by passing in the web service URL, but I haven't investigated that.  Has any one tried it?  http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+SOAP

The steps I did went something like this:

1) Use Axis's WSDL2Java to create the client.

Something like:   java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java --helperGen --output src http://theurl/to/the/service?WSDL

That command will place the java classes under a directory called "src".


2) The create your plugin using the online example, and add a method to create a connection to your webservice.  This is the method I have, except the class name is changed.  Axis created all the needed classes in the previous step.  Just import them.

    public YourWebService getWebService() throws ServiceException
    {
       YourWebService ServiceLocator imlocator = new YourWebService ServiceLocator();
        YourWebService  ims = null;
        try
        {
            //Actually get a service
            ims = imlocator.getYourWebService();
           
            //cast it as the stub to set the password
            //YourWebService Stub stub = (YourWebService Stub)ims;
            //TODO: Set username and password
            //stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.USERNAME_PROPERTY, username);
            //stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, password);
           
        }
        catch (ServiceException se)
        {
            mLogger.debug("Big fat error in plugin: " + se.getMessage());
            throw se;
        }
        return ims;
    }

3) Build and copy the needed jar files to lib.

4)  #set($webservice = $xwiki.yourplugin.getWebService())
$webservice.method1()
$webservice.method2("blah")
$webservice.method3()

-Tom

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Ute <ute_gerlach@arcor.de>

06/15/2007 01:33 PM
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Sorry for posting this again, but I had the bad feeling that my first post
didn't make it into the mailing list.
Unfortunately I'm still struggling with making a call to a Web service...

Cheers,
Ute


Ute wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> can anyone give me an example how to call an external web service from
> Velocity code and evaluate the result?
> The question may be stupid, but I'm new to XWiki, Velocity, and WEb
> programming...
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Ute
>

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