develop web services in struts

[madhuri kunchala]

hi,
im new to webservices and struts....i had given to develop console application using webservices and struts...that means i need to develop webservices in struts.i had a doubt that is it possible to do webservices with struts...can any one help me out regarding this matter....or suggest me any information link for that...

[David Newton]

All a "web service" is is something that returns data over the web. It could return JSON or XML (the most popular and obvious), or plain text, or... whatever your application expects to consume. You can develop a web service using *any* framework, including no framework at all.

[madhuri kunchala]

hi,
i got what 'David' suggested..i searched in google im unable to find any site regarding developing webservices using struts in netbeans.....can anyone provide me the information

[David Newton]

What specific kind of information are you looking for?

[madhuri kunchala]

hi,
i had given to develop application using webservices.....i had searched and done some sample application...my doubt is i need to develop that webservice application in struts2...im not getting any idea regarding that...can you suggest me how to do....i need to start my project....

[David Newton]

And I'm asking what kind of information you're looking for, otherwise I have no idea how to help you.

All a web service is is an application that returns data via the web. It can be created using *anything*. Do you know what kind of data you have to return? XML? SOAP? JSON? Plain text? Do you know how people will be making requests of the service? XML? HTTP form data?

[madhuri kunchala]

hi,
using SOAP...i dont have any idea regarding that and how to make request for that..can you help me...

[David Newton]

You want to make a SOAP *request*? I thought you were writing the service itself.

I'm not sure I'd bother using S2 to handle SOAP requests since there are existing SOAP frameworks already.

[madhuri kunchala]

k...can you tell me is there any information regarding how to use SOAP.....and i had came to know that SOAPUI Pro is a tool where we can give the link of our webservices and followed with ?wsdl...but i dont know how to do all those things....

[David Newton]

There are countless SOAP tutorials and blogs and documents available on the web. There's no way to encapsulate enough information to be useful in a simple, concise answer here. You may post specific questions in the web services forum here on JavaRanch, though.

[madhuri kunchala]

k...i'll search it..