Doing a
soap request using just a web browser will not work very well.
You can use a program called
soapUI to
test your web service.
To call your web service from a client application you will need to generate your client code from your web service's WSDL file.
Both version of Axis (1 and 2) have nice documentation on how to generate your client code from a WSDL file.
Best of Luck.