Automate the process of generating webservice clients - eclipse

Question

I am using RAD 7.5 (based on Eclipse) to generate client code from webservice WSDLs. There are actually 2 or 3 that need to be generated together to produce one client. Is there a way to automate the process of stepping through the webservice client wizard, selecting the JAX-WS binding files for all WSDLs? Ideally, this process would also create the Jar file after the Java code has been generated.
Is it possible to automate this in RAD/Eclipse?

Answer 1

You can use Maven with Eclipse.
There is a plugin for Maven
http://jax-ws-commons.java.net/jaxws-maven-plugin/examples/using-wsdlLocation.html
<project>
...
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
<version>2.2.6</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
<build>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>wsimport</goal>
</goals>
<!-- Following configuration will invoke wsimport once for each wsdl. -->
<configuration>
<wsdlLocation>http://example.com/mywebservices/*</wsdlLocation>
<wsdlDirectory>src/mywsdls</wsdlDirectory>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile>a.wsdl</wsdlFile> <!-- produces wsdlLocation = http://example.com/mywebservices/a.wsdl -->
<wsdlFile>b/b.wsdl</wsdlFile> <!-- produces wsdlLocation = http://example.com/mywebservices/b/b.wsdl -->
<wsdlFile>${basedir}/src/mywsdls/c.wsdl</wsdlFile> <!-- produces wsdlLocation = /path/to/basedir/src/mywsdls/c.wsdl -->
</wsdlFiles>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
<build>
...
</project>