Creating Radio Reference Library

Creating a java library for the Radio Reference web service

The Radio Reference API uses an older WSDL format that is not compatible with modern versions of wsimport (2.x+). Generating a library from this WSDL requires an older version of Apache Axis.
Go to http://apache.is.co.za/axis/axis/java/1.4/ and download axis-bin-1_4.zip.

Extract axis 1.4 into a directory and you should have the following files (among others) in a /libs folder:

• axis.jar
• commons-discovery-0.2.jar
• commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
• jaxrpc.jar
• saaj.jar
• wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar

Additionally, download the following two jars and store them in the same Axis 1.4 libs folder

• http://central.maven.org/maven2/javax/activation/activation/1.1/activation-1.1.jar
• http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/java-mail/java-mail-1.4.jar.zip (and extract it)

Open a command prompt and navigate to the libs folder and execute this command:

java -classpath commons-discovery-0.2.jar:axis.jar:commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:jaxrpc.jar:saaj.jar:wsdl4j- 1.5.1.jar:java-mail-1.4.jar:activation-1.1.jar:log4j-1.2.8.jar org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java -B http://api.radioreference.com/soap2/?wsdl&v=14

This will create a folder /com in the /libs folder and will also generate (-B option) an ant build script.

Change the wsdl version from 14 to the latest version number.

Edit the build.xml file and change the jar name in this line from ?wsdl to radioreference-14.jar:

Run ant from the same folder to create the radioreference-14.jar library