What is the easiest way to generate a Java client from an RPC encoded WSDL

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I’m new to the concept of web services and I’m currently working on a project where I need to retrieve some data from an external application via SOAP.

This application provides an RPC encoded WSDL. I’m currently finding it very difficult to create a client for this service in Java due to RPC being superseded.

The closest I’ve got so far is using JAX-RPC but every time I try to run the ws-compile programme I get an error which states “error code to large”.

I have researched on AXIS 2, and tried to compile it’s WSDL2JAVA but due to RPC encoding I keep getting exception on all the data binding methods.

I was wondering if I can have some advice or a guide on generating Java Clients from RPC encoded WSDLs. What are the steps? What should I consider before I even try to write the client?

I’m currently using netbeans 6.9.1

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Are you having the wsdl(url) ? – Anuj Balan
Yes I do have access to the WSDL, it's an RPC/encoded WSDL. – BOWS
Just check the answer that I had given. I think it should work. HTH – Anuj Balan
on your solutions: 1) I’m using netbeans as states above and so far I don’t think there is any plug-ins to generate stubs for netbeans. However I also do use Eclipse the current version I’m using is Version: Helios Service Release 2, when I performed the steps of placing the plug in the plug-in or drop-in folders the wizard still does not show an axis option. 2) When I used the web-services plug-in it always states that it can’t find the wsdl or invalid wsdl when I pass URL – BOWS
let us continue this discussion in chat – BOWS

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If you are trying to generate the client stub from the wsdl url, then follow this

Thank you