Recently I was playing around consuming web service inside Eclipse plug-in. Making simple web service call maybe a bit tricky at the beginning. I’m going to provide quick start instruction here,

Required software:

• Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developer
• JEE Standard Tools & Axis
  

Configuration steps:

• Define new JEE service in a workspace
  
• Create new plug-in project
  
• Add following dependencies to the plug-in:
  • org.apache.commons.logging
  • javax.wsdl
  • javax.xml.rpc
  • javax.xml.soap
  • org.apache.commons.discovery
  • org.apache.axis

  

• Generate web service client code
  

  

Consume web service:

Using web service in side a plug-in is no different than anyone else. Sample of invoking web service method:

TransportServiceSoap service = new TransportServiceLocator().getTransportServiceSoap();
service.getCities();

Instruction presented above is based on Eclipse 3.4.1 and uses sample web service from http://www.urbanlife.pl/