Hi Ivan.
No, it's not necessary that the WSDL has to be accessed using SSL.
However, when I deploy the web service omitting
in the web.xml file, I get errors in the clients when I do a
test web service call (however, the client stub code generation is successful).
The .NET client that worked before (with <http-method>GET</http-method>) throws the following exception when I do a web service call:
A web service call in Java with the Axis client stubs (via the Add New Web Service Client wizard) yields:
When I generate the client stubs with wsimport (that Ant-file) I get