You can easily generate a web service client from a WSDL document. This is because a WSDL document contains all the information that describes a web service. The type, message, and interface elements describe the functionalities of a web service. The binding element describes how these functionalities can be invoked, and the service element specifies the location of these services.

The following steps help develop a web service client from a WSDL document:

The client program binds to a web service using a proxy component called a stub that provides the web services functionalities. Most platforms provide built-in tools to generate a stub from a given WSDL document. These stubs can be generated dynamically at runtime or statically at compile time as Java classes. For example, the JWSDP provides a wscompile batch file that generates Java classes during compile time.

After creating the Java class file for the stub, you need to create an interface to reference the dynamically created stub component. This interface defines methods exposed by the corresponding web service.

Finally, the client application needs to invoke these methods and consume the web service.