Bikash Behera

If your company is like most, it is likely that your suppliers, vendors, distributors, and partners have exposed dozens of Web services for your use. What do you do if you want to try several Web services before deciding whether to integrate them with your IT environment, and you don't have the time to write a client for each? And what is the best way to handle verbose results that make it difficult to extract the information that is meaningful to your company? Although some companies let you download free tools to invoke Web services, they generally don't give you much understanding of how a request is generated and usually won't go beyond showing you a raw response. You may want to roll up your sleeves and explore the many standards and APIs such as SAAJ and XSLT that are available to see how you can invoke Web services and generate useful reports. During this pro... (more)