wstools instead of wsconsume?

[maffewl]

How do I know when to use wstools instead of wsconsume? Does wstools provide functinality that wsconsume does not?

I'm havig problems running WSConsume on a legacy WSDL, Im getting the error :

[ERROR] Invalid wsdl:operation "fooBar": its a rpc-literal operation, message part must refer to a schema type declaration

[vashistvishal]

Well new tool sets provide wsconsume nd wsprovide are built for Jax-WS style of web services and are using annotations(JSR -181) which is part of Jax-WS spec (Jsr 224).

Old tools like wstools are not using annotions for services, they are providing Jsr-109 based service and JAX-RPC (JSR 101) style web service.

SO if you want to move to Jax-ws style of web service then use wscosnume and wsprovide, but if you want to continue in Jax-RPC style of web service then use wstools.

I hope this helps.