Web Services with NetBeans IDE

                         

Creating webservices in NetBeans.

In this example program I will show you how you can make webservices in the Netbeans IDE. NetBeans IDE provides necessary GUI Tool to help the developers to quickly develop and deploy web services.

In this example we will

a) Develop webservices

b) Test the webservice

c) Develop client and call the webservice there

d) Finally deploy and test the application

Web Service can be added in a Web project or in Ejb project. Netbeans IDE helps the developers to easily develop and test the webservices. It’s easy to make the Web Service program in Netbeans, which has Glassfish server by default.

Web Service program in Web Project
In Netbeans take new web project in figure 1

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Give project name       webservice1 as shown in figure 2  

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Select the server name in figure 3

                                                               
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Now Rt Click on the Web Service project  in figure 4

Select New->WebService

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Now give the name of the Web Service and package name  figure 5

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Now In design view of Web Service  click on Add Operation  in figure 6

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Here  give the operation name and parameter name and type as shown  in figure 7

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Now in source view change the return null to return “hello ”+name as in figure 8

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Now Rt Click on the project and deploy it on the server  as in figure 9

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It will deploy the war file on to the server
Now test the web service program
Rt click on the MyWebService in web services folder and select Test Web Operation as in figure 10

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It will open the Web Service  program in browser as in figure 11

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Click on WSDL File in blue color .It will open the WSDL  file in the browser as in figure 12

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Now as in fig type the roseindia in the text field and click on show button  as in figure 13

                                                 
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It will return hello roseindia
It also give the SOAP request and SOAP response  pf the Web Service  as in figure 14

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Now make the client file.Client file can be java servlet , jsp  and standalone java file
Start a new web project as in figure 15.
Give project name as Webservice1-client

Now Rt. Click on the project select NewàWeb Service client

Here  now select the WSDL file of the Web Service as in figure 15
Click on the Browse.

Now select the webservice1àMyWebService

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It creates the Client environments for the Web Service   in the given project
Now make a Client   file  by just taking a new Jsp file as in figure 16

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Give the file name as client.jsp
Rt click  in client.jsp file code  and select  Web Service Client resources -->Call Web Service  Operation in figure 17

                                
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Select the web service project ->web service file->web service port->operation name  as in figure 18

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Change   the name =”null”  to  name=”roseindia”  as in figure 19

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Rt click in client.jsp and select run client.jsp

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