Overview

The XFire Eclipse plugin provides Eclipse support for XFire's WSDL->Code generator. It requires Eclipse 3.2 and Java 5.

Installing the Plugin

To install the Eclipse XFire plugin:

  1. go to the Help menu, select "Software Updates" and then select "Find and Install."
  2. Select "Search for new features to install" and click Next.
  3. Select "Create New Remote Site" and enter "XFire" as the name and http://dist.codehaus.org/xfire/update/ as the eclipse update site.
  4. Select OK.
  5. Select Finish

Using the Plugin

The first step is to start the code generation wizard. Go to File->New->Other. Then select Code generation from WSDL document.

The plugin will then prompt you for the location of your WSDL, where to output the code, and also what package you would like the service in. 

Once you're done you'll see the generated classes in your IDE!