webservices.adoc

Web Services

Spring Boot provides Web Services auto-configuration so that all you must do is define your Endpoints.

The {spring-webservices-docs}[Spring Web Services features] can be easily accessed with the spring-boot-starter-webservices module.

SimpleWsdl11Definition and SimpleXsdSchema beans can be automatically created for your WSDLs and XSDs respectively. To do so, configure their location, as shown in the following example:

spring:
  webservices:
    wsdl-locations: "classpath:/wsdl"

Calling Web Services with WebServiceTemplate

If you need to call remote Web services from your application, you can use the {spring-webservices-docs}#client-web-service-template[WebServiceTemplate] class. Since WebServiceTemplate instances often need to be customized before being used, Spring Boot does not provide any single auto-configured WebServiceTemplate bean. It does, however, auto-configure a WebServiceTemplateBuilder, which can be used to create WebServiceTemplate instances when needed.

The following code shows a typical example:

link:{docs-java}/features/webservices/template/MyService.java[role=include]

By default, WebServiceTemplateBuilder detects a suitable HTTP-based WebServiceMessageSender using the available HTTP client libraries on the classpath. You can also customize read and connection timeouts as follows:

link:{docs-java}/features/webservices/template/MyWebServiceTemplateConfiguration.java[role=include]