CSC 309 - Programming on the Web
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~radu/csc309/


In this example, we demonstrate how to connect to a typical web service.


Espacenet (The European Patent Office) is offering browsing services
via SOAP.

Quote from the EPO site:

https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/help_en.ht
ml#4

Pilot direct access to the underlying data has been introduced. A technical
description of the service is available at:

https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/doc/Europe
an_publication_server_webservice_doc_v1.pdf

The WSDL file for the service can be found at:

https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/soap/Serve
r.wsdl


The included files demonstrate how to connnect to a web service.
Use Apache Axis to generate Java client stubs from this WSDL:
https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/doc/Europe
an_publication_server_webservice_doc_v1.pdf
https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/soap/Serve
r.wsdl