IceSoap provides quick, easy, asynchronous access to SOAP web services from Android devices. It allows for SOAP responses to be bound to Java POJOs via annotations (using a subset of xpath), while still retaining the speed of the native android XmlPullParser.
This came about from a project intending to provide a front-end for Websphere Commerce Server via its (rather complex) web service layer. I found KSoap to be too difficult to work with, and doing each SOAP call manually with its own parser was a nightmare of nested-ifs to try to represent XML hierarchies with one-dimensional XmlPullParser code. I was also frustrated at how easy it would all be if I could just connect to a JSON-based service instead. There had to be a better way...
And so, IceSoap was born. IceSoap aims to get you up and connected to your web service quickly and easily, without messing about with WSDLs or code generation. I've noticed that while a lot of JSON-and-REST-based web services provide lovely, simple APIs, a lot of SOAP services are often complex, mid-00s behemoths designed with full SOA in mind (like the Websphere Commerce API) rather than providing a bit of information to a phone. As such, IceSoap is designed in such a way that the complexity of the service you're connected to won't leak into your lean, mean mobile app - you can use just as much of the web service as you need and forget about the rest.
IceSoap doesn't generate code to implement SOAP - rather its design is closer to that of JSON libraries like GSON - you simply create a Java POJO to represent the object you want to get from the web service, annotate it with XPaths so it can find the fields it needs, then let IceSoap parse it for you. Use of background threads is baked into the code, so all you have to worry about is what to send and what to do with it when it comes back.
So download IceSoap, read the Getting Started Guide, have a look at the example and get going! Javadoc is here.
This project is now in maintenance mode - the code is stable and I'll fix happily bugs if they come up, but I won't be developing new features. That said, if you want to develop it, feel free to send me a pull request on Github or just fork the project altogether. I've seen downloads dwindle as time has gone on, which hopefully means that SOAP is declining as a messaging format, and hence there's not much point enhancing this library much further.
This used to be hosted on Google Code until Google did their thing and dumped it like an unwanted Christmas puppy. As a result the old issues that have been raised since the first release aren't actually on this repo, instead they're on the one that got converted here: https://github.com/AlexGilleran/icesoap-gcode-import/issues. This project also lost its 42 google code stars :(.
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