Write Your First Web Services Client Part 2: Using Services
Lets dive into our second part of demystifying Web Services tutorial and writing your first (second :)) Web Services Client (you might want to read first part 1 about Finding and Testing Web Services Tutorial). Again, I do not want to show you how to write a new Web Service, as I personally believe that it is more motivational for a new user of Web Services technologies to use existing service to grasp an idea of them, rather than to write services themselves. That is why we will find and use an existing Web Service and write some useful Web application. I will use for this tutorial Java, Tomcat and Eclipse. If you have these installed on your machine, then in 10-15 minutes you should have your application up and running. Otherwise you have to reserve more time to download and install required components. Anyway, once you are done with installations, the practical part of this tutorial will be very short as I have cut everything to absolute minimum. I want you to use Web Services, not to waste your time on understanding bits and bytes of their particular protocols (this you can find yourself in WSDL and SOAP specifications and various more advanced tutorials available on the Web).
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