Dear Developer Community,

I am fairly new to working with the SOAP API of WorldServer as I am rather used to work with the REST API.
However, some functionalities are still not yet provided via REST API which is why I would like to further explore the functionalities of the SOAP API.

I was able to sucessfully work with the SOAP services using a client like Postman, sending direct XML requests to receive the information I needed.
However, I saw in the SDK that SDL provides sample client applications that should make the process far easier e. g. terminology lookup via SOAP (tools_samples.jar contains webservices directory). The one I tried to execute was the SearchTDWildcard sample. However, I still was not able to sucessfully execute it (error states that the main class/methode cannot be found).

What I have tried: I extracted the toolkit.jar as here the webservice client example class files should be available.

From the directory where the toolkit has been extracted, as now the path to the class files needed should be available, I executed the command given in the sample file itself for searching the WS TD (command is provided as a commend in the source code and documentation, actual information regarding WS URL and TDs have been anonymised for this post):

java -Dws.url=http://myWSURL:8080/ws

com.idiominc.wssdk.samples.tools.webservices.SearchTDWildcard

username MyUser

password myPW

TD "Test TD"

text "*WorldServer*"

source English-US

target French-France > search-results.csv

As far as I understand this, I should be able to execute this via CMD or Powershell e. g. on the application server and via the directory in which the path to the class file "SearchTDWildCard" exists.

It his correct? As this is a client application? Or am I completely wrong on this?

Are there any other dependencies necessary? Do I need to compile or execute the files/samples with additional libraries? Is the sample able to make the SOAP request or is this rather something that is used for sample servlets to be executed in the UI of WS somewhere?

I thought the sample file would work as a webservice client application (e.g. like Postman), create the XML SOAP requests (as I secify the parameters), send it to the respective SOAP endpoints of Worldserver (as I provide the services URL and a path), receive the response, parse the response and push the results to a csv file in the same directory where the command has been executed. 

Has anyone of you experiences using the samples provided in the SDK and might be able to give me some tipps on how to work with them?

SDL Support has suggested that I could ask the questions here in the community as some of you might have worked with the SOAP API as well and the answer could also might be interesting for the community.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you in advance.