First steps on liferay web services

Question

• I followed this tutorial -documentation about Liferay Web service.
• I runned Lifaray on tomcat
• If I use http://localhost:8080/api/axis/Portal_UserService?wsdl by browser I have a response.

• When I create a webService Client on Eclipse and I put this url http://localhost:8080/api/axis/Portal_UserService?wsdl in the Service Definition... but I have this error message:

  No server can be found and WebServiceProject does not exist. Choose an existing project or use the preferences to configure a server runtime.
  Why?

Answer 1

This does not mean that the server (eg Liferay) can't be found but notifies you that Eclipse doesn't know where to put/how to configure the resulting WebService: It needs a server runtime and a WebServiceProject - eg you can create a WebServiceClient inside a project - if no suitable project exists, eclipse will complain.

So: Everything is fine on the Liferay side. You'll need infrastructure in your IDE to be able to go forward with this operation

Answer 2

创建动态Web项目并配置服务器，然后添加wsdl。

Answer 3

I could not find any solution to this, for some reason Eclipse didn't recognize a valid wsdl . I downloaded a trial version of IntelliJ IDEA 13 Ultimate and setup the Web Service Client through there. Everything worked properly.