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wsimport - Java™ API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0

Specification Version: 2.1
Implementation Version: 2.1.1

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Overview

The wsimport tool generates JAX-WS portable artifacts, such as:

These artifacts can be packaged in a WAR file with the WSDL and schema documents along with the endpoint implementation to be deployed. also provides wsimport ant task, see Wsimport ant task.

Launching wsimport

Syntax

wsimport [options] <wsdl>

The following table lists the wsimport options.

Option

Description

-d <directory>  

Specify where to place generated output files

-b <path>  

Specify external JAX-WS or JAXB binding files (Each <file> must have its own -b)

-B <jaxbOption>

Pass this option to JAXB schema compiler

-catalog

Specify catalog file to resolve external entity references, it supports TR9401, XCatalog, and OASIS XML Catalog format. Please read the documentation of catalog and see catalog sample.

-extension  

Allow vendor extensions (functionality not specified by the specification). Use of extensions may result in applications that are not portable or may not interoperate with other implementations

-help  

Display help

-httpproxy:<host>:<port>  

Specify an HTTP proxy server (port defaults to 8080)

-keep  

Keep generated files

-p  
Specifying a target package via this command-line option, overrides any wsdl and schema binding customization for package name and the default package name algorithm defined in the specification
-s <directory>  

Specify where to place generated source files

-verbose  

Output messages about what the compiler is doing

-version  

Print version information

-wsdllocation <location> 
@WebServiceClient.wsdlLocation value
-target  
Generate code as per the given JAX-WS specification version. version 2.0 will generate compliant code for JAX-WS 2.0 spec.
-quiet  
Suppress wsimport output

Multiple JAX-WS and JAXB binding files can be specified using -b option and they can be used to customize various things like package names, bean names, etc. More information on JAX-WS and JAXB binding files can be found in the customization documentation.

Example

wsimport -p stockquote http://stockquote.xyz/quote?wsdl

This will generate the Java artifacts and compile them by importing the http://stockquote.xyz/quote?wsdl.


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