Having generated the web service artifacts, packaged and deployed the web service, generated the runtime JAR file for the web service client, and compiled the client class, next we shall test the web service client. We shall run the build.xml targets in the following order:
Right-click on the server target and select Run Target:
The output from the server target indicates that the clean, setup, build-server-wsdl, create-war, and deploy targets are run to deploy the clientjar.war file to the GlassFish Server:
clean: Deleting directory C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuild setup: Created dir: C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuild Created dir: C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildclasses Created dir: C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildwar build-server-wsdl: parsing WSDL... Generating code... Compiling code... Compiling 1 source file to C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildclasses create-war: Building war: C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildwarclientjar.war deploy: Copying 1 file to C:glassfish3glassfishdomainsdomain1autodeploy BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 21 seconds)
The clientjar WAR file is deployed on the Oracle GlassFish Server, as shown in the following screenshot:
Next, run the client target to generate the runtime JAR file and compile the client class. Right-click on the client target and select Run Target:
The generate-client and client targets start running and the runtime JAR file HelloWSServiceClient.jar is generated:
generate-client: Consider using <depends>/<produces> so that wsimport won't do unnecessary compilation parsing WSDL... Downloading the WSDL and associated metadata Generating code... Compiling code... Archiving the generated artifacts in to C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildclassesHelloWSServiceClient.jar. client: Compiling 1 source file to C:UsersdvohraDocumentsNetBeansProjectsHelloWSuildclasses BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 9 seconds)
The build classes generated by the build-server-wsdl and client Ant tasks, and the client JAR generated by the generate-client task are shown in the following screenshot:
Next, test the client class by running the run target. Right-click on the run target and select Run Target:
The client class runs and the web service gets invoked to generate a Hello message as shown in the following screenshot:
The output from the run target is as follows:
run: Hello John Smith. Welcome to Web Services! BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 10 seconds)