CDS XML Web Services

Available XML Web Services - UCD

The WSDL file of this XML Web Service

The WSDL hosted by the NASA Astrophysics Data System at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The following example shows how to use this XML Web Service in a Java application

It requires Axis libraries

UCDClient.java - http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/services/UCD




Client.java


/**
* Titre : UCD Client
* Description : Gets definition/descrption corresponding to a UCD
* Copyright : Copyright : Copyright (c) 2002-2005
* Société : Centre de Données Astronomique de Strasbourg
* @author André Schaaff
* @version 1.0
*/

// package generated with the following command
// java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/services/UCD?wsdl
import UCD_pkg.*;

public class Client{

  public Client() {

    try {

      // locator creation
      UCDService locator = new UCDServiceLocator();

      // UCD object
      UCD mya = locator.getUCD();

      // explain example - String result
      String result = mya.explain("phot.mag;em.opt.V");
      System.out.println(result); // Photometric magnitude / Optical V band between 500 and 600 nm
    }
    catch (Exception e ) {System.out.println("UCD XML WS client : " + e);}
  }

  public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
    new Client();
  }
}