What you're suggesting is technically possible but more
often than not,
for a variety of reasons (performance being the main one),
the code for
consuming web services is generated through a compilation
process
rather than being generated "on the fly" from
the information in the
WSDL.
However check out, by way of example, our online WSDL
test/validation
site (www.mgateway.com/wsdlClient.htm) which, by its very
nature, has
to be able to interpret the WSDL dynamically, so you can use
it to test
any changes you make to a WSDL immediately. It doesn't
generate any
proxy classes behind the scenes.
So what you're asking for is definitely possible, but
unfortunately it
isn't that common, nor, I can tell you, is it easy to
implement !
Osmosis311 wrote:
> Could someone help me understand some basics of web
services?
>
> I understand how to write and consume web services, but
I dont
> understand why there isnt a way to consume a web
service
> programmatically. My reason for wanting this, is lets
say I have a web
> service that I sometimes make code changes to.
According to my
> understanding, after I change the code of the web
service, I will have
> to re-run WSDL, and then re-copy the resulting proxy
class to all of my
> application directories. However, if in my code, I
could simply
> specify the URL of a web service and then access it, I
could change the
> web service code, and the code of my application,
without having to
> recompile with WSDL and re-copy the proxy file.
>
> Am I missing something here? Any advice?
>
> Thank you very much.
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