// All the magic is in the following Axis client classes
// They do all the hard work of creating SOAP wrappers
// and dealing with the XML
import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
// We also need these JAR files
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public static Map<String, Object> soapClientService(
DispatchContext dctx, Map context) {
Map results = FastMap.newInstance();
results.put("result", "success");
// Get everything we need out of the context (the HTML Form)
String endPoint = (String) context.get("endPoint");
URL endpoint = null;
// Define the web services end point as a URL
try {
endpoint = new URL(endPoint);
}
catch (MalformedURLException e) {
Debug.log("Location not a valid URL" +e);
}
Service service = null;
Call call = null;
try {
// Instantiate a new Axis Service object
service = new Service();
// And create a call object from the Service
call = (Call) service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(endpoint);
String nameSpace = null;
// Just in case, validate the FORM variables
if(UtilValidate.isNotEmpty(
(String) context.get("namespace"))) {
nameSpace = (String) context.get("namespace");
}
String serviceName = null;
if(UtilValidate.isNotEmpty(
(String) context.get("serviceName"))) {
serviceName = (String) context.get("serviceName");
}
// This is how we tell NWS which procedure to invoke
call.setOperationName(new QName(nameSpace,serviceName));
// Since this is an artificial program and we know
// that there is only a single input parameter for this
// service that is the zip code, we are just going
// to force it. Making this Service more generic is left
// as an exercise for the reader.
String zipcode = (String) context.get("param1");
// This is where we make the call and let OFBiz and Axis
// do all the heavy lifting
Object ret = (String) call.invoke(new Object[] {zipcode});
// And, hopefully, we return in line with a useful result
results.put("result", ret.toString());
}
catch (Exception e) {
Debug.log("Exception when running our SOAP client test: "
+e);
results.put("result", "error: ");
}
// Note: we are returning the results as is and not extracting
// each parameter as sent by the NWS web service.
return results;
}