How to use Java SOAP client

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I am relatively new to Java and SOAP. and I am supposed to integrate our java application with Marketo for sending welcome registration emails. I went through the SOAP API documentation and identified the Marketo API calls to fulfill our objective.

However I do not know , how to call these API from my java code.  Up on reading i found that I will need a SOAP client to make those calls. I also went through the Sample Java SOAP client . But I don't know how to use it ?
Do we have a jar or something that I can add to my class path OR I can copy this client in to my workspace and modify it as per my SOAP API settings ?

Can somebody provide me a step by step guide for using the sample Java SOAP Client provided by marketo OR if anyone has written their own SOAP client and don't mind sharing ?

Thanks,
Neha

[Anonymous]

There is a very good example attached to article "SOAP API Java Example"

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000KzVNCA0

There are also good examples in PHP, very quick and easy to port to Java or any similar language.

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000Kz59CAC

The term "client" slightly ambiguous since we are not installing anything to interact with SOAP API.

"Sample libraries" would be a better fit.

[Anonymous]

Thanks bgomes , for the answer. But I already had a look at the sample JAVA client provided on Marketo site , and I do not know How I can use it ?

Should I pack it as a jar and use it as a 3rd party lib ? Then I can just instantiate the MktowsClient with my SOAP API parameter. Is this the right way to use it ?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Neha,
Please see the README at https://github.com/Marketo/SOAP-API-Java-Client. 

Raj

[Anonymous]

Hi Raj,

I used the SOAP-API-JAVA client  as described in this site -  https://github.com/Marketo/SOAP-API-Java-Client.

However I do have a question on it's usage and expecting that you may be able to answer it.

In marketo client code I see these lines-

QNameserviceName=newQName("http://www.marketo.com/mktows/","MktMktowsApiService");MktMktowsApiServiceservice=newMktMktowsApiService(marketoSoapEndPoint,serviceName);MktowsPortport=service.getMktowsApiSoapPort();


I wanted to know if service.getMktowsApiSoapPort(); is thread safe or not.  
In our application we will be calling multiple instances of marketo connection to send emails on every 
registration.

if it is , then resources we need to release once we have acquired a connection and done with processing.

Thanks, 
Neha