Soap and Rest Example

SOAP Pros: ·         Langauge, platform, and transport agnostic ·         Designed to handle distributed computing environments ·         Is the prevailing standard for web services, and hence has better support from other standards (WSDL, WS-*) and tooling from vendors ·         Built-in error handling (faults) ·         Extensibility Cons: ·         Conceptually more difficult, more "heavy-weight" than REST ·         More verbose ·         Harder to develop, requires tools REST Pros: ·         Language and platform agnostic ·         Much simpler to develop than SOAP ·         Small learning curve, less reliance on tools ·         Concise, no need for additional messaging layer ·         Closer in design and philosophy to the Web Cons: ·         Assumes a point-to-point communication model--not usable for distributed computing environment where message may go through one or more intermediaries ·         Lack of standards support for security, policy, reliable messaging, etc., so services that have more sophisticated requirements are harder to develop ("roll your own") ·         Tied to the HTTP transport model Example of REST Use apache http jar public void callRestWebService(){            System.out.println(".....REST..........");              HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();               HttpGet request = new HttpGet(wsdlURL);               request.addHeader("company name", "abc");               request.addHeader("getAccessNumbers","http://service.xyz.com/");              ResponseHandler<String> handler = new BasicResponseHandler();               try {                   result = httpclient.execute(request, handler);                  System.out.println("..result..."+result);              } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {                   e.printStackTrace();               } catch (IOException e) {                   e.printStackTrace();               }               httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();           } // end callWebService()       } Example of SOAP You can use either ksoap or create soap xml by yourself and send to url private boolean callSOAPWebService() {         OutputStream out = null;         int respCode = -1;         boolean isSuccess = false;         URL url = null;         HttpsURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;         try {             url = new URL(wsdlURL);             httpURLConnection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();             do {                 // httpURLConnection.setHostnameVerifier(DO_NOT_VERIFY);                 httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");                 httpURLConnection                         .setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");                 httpURLConnection                         .setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml");                 httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("SendChunked", "True");                 httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("UseCookieContainer",                         "True");                 HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(false);                 httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);                 httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);                 httpURLConnection.setUseCaches(true);                 httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-length",                         getReqData().length + "");                 httpURLConnection.setReadTimeout(10 * 1000);                 // httpURLConnection.setConnectTimeout(10 * 1000);                 httpURLConnection.connect();                 out = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();                 if (out != null) {                     out.write(getReqData());                     out.flush();                 }                 if (httpURLConnection != null) {                     respCode = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();                     Log.e("respCode", ":" + respCode);                 }             } while (respCode == -1);             // If it works fine             if (respCode == 200) {                 try {                     InputStream responce = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();                     String str = convertStreamToString(responce);                     System.out.println(".....data....." + new String(str));                     // String str                     // =Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/sunilwebservice.txt";                     // File f = new File(str);                     //                     // try{                     // f.createNewFile();                     // FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);                     // fo.write(b);                     // fo.close();                     // }catch(Exception ex){                     // ex.printStackTrace();                     // }                 } catch (Exception e1) {                     e1.printStackTrace();                 }             } else {                 isSuccess = false;             }         } catch (IOException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         } finally {             if (out != null) {                 out = null;             }             if (httpURLConnection != null) {                 httpURLConnection.disconnect();                 httpURLConnection = null;             }         }         return isSuccess;     }     public static String createSoapHeader() {         String soapHeader = null;         soapHeader = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"                 + "<soap:Envelope "                 + "xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\""                 + " xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\""                 + " xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"" + ">";         return soapHeader;     }     public static byte[] getReqData() {         StringBuilder requestData = new StringBuilder();         requestData.append(createSoapHeader());         requestData                 .append("<soap:Body>"                         + "<getAccessNumbers"                         + " xmlns=\"http://service.xyz.com.com/\""                         + "</getAccessNumbers> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>");         return requestData.toString().trim().getBytes();     }     private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is)             throws UnsupportedEncodingException {         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,                 "UTF-8"));         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();         String line = null;         try {             while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {                 sb.append(line + "\n");             }         } catch (IOException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         } finally {             try {                 is.close();             } catch (IOException e) {                 e.printStackTrace();             }         }         return sb.toString();     }