Call .NET Webservice with Android
- by Lasse P
Hi,
I know this question has been asked here before, but I don't think those answers were adequate for my needs.
We have a SOAP webservice that is used for an iPhone application, but it is possible that we need an Android specific version or a proxy of the service, so we have the option to go with either SOAP or JSON. I have a few concerns about both methods:
SOAP solution:
Is it possible to generate java
source code from a WSDL file, if so,
will it include some kind of proxy
class to invoke the webservice and
will it work in the Android
environment at all?
Google has not provided any SOAP
library in Android, so i need to use
3rd party, any suggestion?
What about the performance/overhead
with parsing and transmitting SOAP
xml over the wire versus the JSON
solution?
JSON solution:
There is a few classes in the
Android sdk that will let me parse
JSON, but does it support generic
parsing, like if I want the result
to be parsed as a complex type? Or
would I need to implement that
myself?
I have read about 2 libraries before
here on Stackoverflow, GSON an
Jackson. What is the difference
performance and usability (from a
developers perspective) wise? Do you
guys have any experince with either
of those libraries?
So i guess the big question is, what method to go with?
I hope you can help me out. Thanks in advance :-)
