RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Generating a Java client from WADL

You can generate the Java client for a WADL file by using the wadl2java tool. To download the ZIP file containing wadl2java, go to https://github.com/javaee/wadl.

After downloading the ZIP file, perform the following steps:

1. Extract the contents and set the path to the bin folder that contains the wadl2java.bat file (for example, <wadl-dist-1.1.6>/bin).
2. Set JAVA_HOME pointing to a valid JDK home folder.
3. Now, execute wadl2java as follows:

wadl2java -o outputDir -p package [-a] [-s jaxrs20] [-c customization]  outputfile.wadl 

Here is a brief description of the arguments used for wadl2java:

• -o outputDir: This argument specifies the target folder for storing the generated client source
• -p package: This argument ...