This tutorial shows how to use the Web Service Explorer to test a Web service via native WSDL and SOAP. It demonstrates how to use the Web Services Explorer to invoke operations on a Web service named " Temperature - Weather " as available from XMethods on the internet.
The only prerequisite is that you be connected to the internet. If you are connected via a firewall, you can use the Internet preferences page (choose Preferences -> Internet from the main menu). Other than that, you can begin with a completely fresh workspace and no installed servers.
You may need to move the horizontal bar separating the Actions and Status panes upwards a bit to get a better view. Result:
The Web Services Explorer is a JSP Web application hosted on the internal Apache Tomcat servlet engine. It is integrated on two levels: visually by virtue of it running in the embedded browser, and logically by virtue of it running as a thread in same JRE as your application. Though not demonstrated in this scenario, this latter type of integration allows the Web Services Explorer to access resources in the workspace, write resources into the workspace, and launch various Web services wizards.
The Web Services Explorer provides three key services to the user:
A key point of the scenario above is that no code was
generated and no servers were required in order to invoke
operations on the WSDL.