When integrating any non native application (JAVA or NET or ..) with salesforce, you need to have the salesforce API library in place that can be referred\/used as a referenced library in project being developed. This library is the the one that acts as face to salesforce i.e., intermediary between your application and salesforce.<\/p>\n
Simple yet important step of such type of integration is to generate stub code (jar file) from wsdl (salesforce enterprise or partner wsdl) and though such a simple step, we (at least I) always forget (or I should say cant recall easily) the step on how to generate same.<\/p>\n
Below are three easy steps to generate stub code (jar) from a wsdl:<\/p>\n
java -classpath wsc-xx.jar com.sforce.ws.tools.wsdlc *wsdl* *jar.file*
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\njava -jar wsc-23.jar *wsdl* *jar.file*<\/p><\/blockquote>\nwsdl is the name of the WSDL file
\njar.file is the name of the output jar file that wsdlc generates
\nYou can include an optional argument: -Dpackage-prefix=myprefix<\/li>\n- Now write your client application. Add wsc-xx-min.jar and jar.file (generated by wsdlc) to your classpath, then compile and run your client application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
With this you are all set with stub code \/ library and ready to make soap API calls to Salesforce.<\/p>\n
Enjoy Coding!<\/p>\n