[jeckerlin]

Hello,

I've noticed a lot of posts that deal with kSoap2 and JDE 4.x and people new to the platform. Being new to Java and Blackberry development, I struggled with it the past week and wanted to make a post so that others wont have to spend so much time hunting and searching like I did. I hope this helps.

I am assuming you have JDE 4.x installed.

see below for correct steps as of 2 pm 7/18/08.

[jeckerlin]

looks like I got a little ahead of myself. Looks like you need to do things a little differently so the blackberry device will load the ksoap files correctly.

Modified steps appear to be:
1) You need a preverified ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar (attached) file. The ones from the kSoap site arenxxx8217;t preverified and when attempting to do so it failed. I attempting to go through a preverification process but have been unsuccessful. I obtained the attached jar from a post by richard.puckett of a preverified ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar file.

Since I'm new to the forums, I cant specify a direct link to the file. If you do a search for a thread called 'Preverified ksoap2' you can find Richard's link
to the file.

2) Within your JDE project, create a xxx8216;libxxx8217; folder. Using Windows Explorer, create a lib folder within your project and put the ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar file in there.


3) Create a new 'Library' in your JDE workspace called kSoap. Add the preverified ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar in the lib folder to that library.

4) Set the project dependencies to depend on the new library. Right click your main project -> select project dependencies -> select the kSoap library as a dependency

5) compile w/o errors

Below is simple code to call a .Net web service:

code extract from java file:
String serviceUrl = "<url to web service>l";
String serviceNamespace = "h t t p : / / tempuri . org /";
String soapAction = "h t t p : / / tempuri.org / HelloWorld";

SoapObject rpc = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, "HelloWorld");

SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

envelope.bodyOut = rpc;
envelope.dotNet = true;
envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.XSD;

HttpTransport ht = new HttpTransport(serviceUrl);
ht.debug = true;

try
{
ht.call(soapAction, envelope);

String result = (envelope.getResult()).toString();


}
catch(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException ex2){

}
catch(Exception ex){
String bah = ex.toString();

}


Code Extract from .Net web Service
namespace TestService
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Service1
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "h t t p : / / tempuri . org /")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
// [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
{

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
return "Hello World" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString();
}
}
}

[jeckerlin]

Here is another example passing in a simple string parameter:

java:
String serviceUrl = <url to web service>;
String serviceNamespace = "h t tp ://tempuri.org/";
String soapAction = h t tp://tempuri.org/HelloWorldParam";
String methodName = "HelloWorldParam";

SoapObject rpc = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, methodName);
rpc.addProperty("Name", "Jeff");

SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

envelope.bodyOut = rpc;
envelope.dotNet = true;
envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.ENC;

HttpTransport ht = new HttpTransport(serviceUrl);
ht.debug = true;
ht.setXmlVersionTag("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");

String result = null;

try
{
ht.call(soapAction, envelope);
result = (envelope.getResult()).toString();
}
catch(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException ex2){

}
catch(Exception ex){
String bah = ex.toString();
}


.net web service
namespace TestService
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Service1
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "h t tp : //tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
// [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
{

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
return "Hello World" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString();
}

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorldParam(string Name)
{
return "Hello " + Name;
}
}
}

[jeckerlin]

User a complex type from a .net web service:

java:
String serviceUrl = "h t t p://192.168.0.103/BBService/Service1.asmx";
String serviceNamespace = "h t t p//tempuri.org/";
String soapAction = "h t t p://tempuri.org/HelloWorldComplexType";
String methodName = "HelloWorldComplexType";

SoapObject rpc = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, methodName);
rpc.addProperty("Name", "Jeff");
rpc.addProperty("Password", "nonya");

SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

envelope.bodyOut = rpc;
envelope.dotNet = true;
envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.ENC;

HttpTransport ht = new HttpTransport(serviceUrl);
ht.debug = true;
ht.setXmlVersionTag("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");

String result = null;

try
{
ht.call(soapAction, envelope);
result = (envelope.getResult()).toString();
}
catch(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException ex2){

}
catch(Exception ex){
String bah = ex.toString();
}

.net web service:
namespace TestService
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Service1
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "h t t p://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
// [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
{

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
return "Hello World" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString();
}

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorldParam(string Name)
{
return "Hello " + Name;
}


[WebMethod]
public user HelloWorldComplexType(string Name, string Password)
{
user myUser = new user(Name, Password);

return myUser;
}

public class user
{
public user()
{


}

public user(string name, string pwd)
{
usrName = name;
usrPassword = pwd;
}

public string usrName { get; set; }

public string usrPassword { get; set; }
}
}
}

[jeckerlin]

nice tutorial

h t t p : / / w w w . ddj.com/mobile/208800166;
jsessionid=WMSG5RH5VNUR0QSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?pgno=2

[sajika]

Thank you...very useful, I have been struggling to get this working

[FerminRomeroDeTorres]

Excellant jeckerlin, appreciate you taking the time to help out us newbies.

The only thing i'm having problems with is that i am using Eclipse and can't seem to get the ksoap libraries to compile along with the rest of the code into 1 cod file. You describe how to do this in JDE, any ideas how to in Eclipse?

Thanks

[laran]

I/O Error: Import file not found: ..\ksoap\ksoap.jar
Error while building project

That's the error I get when I follow the directions above. The project I created I made a Library project. There is no ksoap.jar. Don't know why there would be.

Any ideas on a fix?

[simon.hain]

Originally Posted by laran

I/O Error: Import file not found: ..\ksoap\ksoap.jar
Error while building project

1) You need a preverified ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar (attached) file

[laran]

Originally Posted by simon.hain

1) You need a preverified ksoap2-j2me-core-2.1.2.jar (attached) file

I verified the jar myself. Is that not good enough?

[sridhark]

Thanks a lot.. Nice tutorial.. My issue is solved..

[skraj72]

Hi,

I followed the above steps and I am getting an error "cannot find symbol" SoapObject. I followed the first steps as described above and it compiled OK. As soon as I added the SoapObject code I get this error. Any suggestions how to fix this? I am trying to call a .NET Web service developed using VS2005.

Thanks,
Sundar

[goulamass]

Hum did you add the librairie to the project and be successfull when importing librairies??

[skraj72]

Yes I added the libraries to the project. What is the import statement to call the SoapObject classes?

[PymbleSoftware]

Originally Posted by skraj72

Yes I added the libraries to the project. What is the import statement to call the SoapObject classes?

Huh?

// SOAP Library imports.
import org.ksoap2.*;
import org.ksoap2.serialization.*;
import org.ksoap2.transport.*;

RR.

[sickned]

http://www.blackberryforums.com/deve...-tutorial.html

[jacytan]

hi jeckerlin,

your samples are very helpful. thanks so much for that.

now, im trying something new. i want to pass a complex type as a parameter to the webmethod. but everytime i do so, the contents of the complex type get replaced with the values that are defined in the default constructor. if the default constructor is empty, the values become null. is there a solution to this problem? i've looked everywhere and nothing has been successful.

please please help!

thanks,
jaclyn

[Meenal]

Hi all,

I have gone through the posts above, and its been real helpful. It works fine on the simulator. But i am having a problem while installing on the device. When i install the application on the device, and try to open it, it gives an error: "Error starting testKsoap: Module 'kSoap' not found." Following is the alx i am using:
************************************
<loader version="1.0">
<application id="testKsoap">
<name >

</name>
<description >

</description>
<version >

</version>
<vendor >
MyCompany
</vendor>
<copyright >
Copyright (c) 2008 MyCompany
</copyright>
<fileset Java="1.24">
<directory >

</directory>
<files >
testKsoap.cod

</files>

</fileset>
<application id="kSoap">
<name >

</name>
<description >

</description>
<version >

</version>
<vendor >
MyCompany
</vendor>
<copyright >
Copyright (c) 2008 MyCompany
</copyright>
<fileset Java="1.24">
<directory >

</directory>
<files >
kSoap.cod

</files>

</fileset>

</application>

</application>

</loader>

************************************

Basically, the kSoap library module is not getting installed on the device. I dont know what i am doing wrong. Please help.

[tbi]

@Meenal: I got the same error - what I ended up doing is installing the ksoap library separately on the blackberry device - this allows you app to execute with errors.

I'm having a different problem with ksoap/bb:
I've got my app running without issues on the simulator but when I run it on the actual device, it says its sending data to my .net web-service but I don't receive anything on the other end - anyone had this issue?

[tbi]

Originally Posted by tbi

@Meenal: I got the same error - what I ended up doing is installing the ksoap library separately on the blackberry device - this allows you app to execute with errors.

I'm having a different problem with ksoap/bb:
I've got my app running without issues on the simulator but when I run it on the actual device, it says its sending data to my .net web-service but I don't receive anything on the other end - anyone had this issue?

Solution:
Figured out the BES server was causing this issue. My guess is, since this is an unsigned app, it wouldn't allow it to communicate with the web-service.

Tested out my app on phones that were not on BES and it worked every time.