[[io.webservices]]
= Web Services

Spring Boot provides Web Services auto-configuration so that all you must do is define your `Endpoints`.

The {url-spring-webservices-docs}[Spring Web Services features] can be easily accessed with the `spring-boot-starter-webservices` module.

`SimpleWsdl11Definition` and `SimpleXsdSchema` beans can be automatically created for your WSDLs and XSDs respectively.
To do so, configure their location, as shown in the following example:


[configprops,yaml]
----
spring:
  webservices:
    wsdl-locations: "classpath:/wsdl"
----



[[io.webservices.template]]
== Calling Web Services with WebServiceTemplate

If you need to call remote Web services from your application, you can use the {url-spring-webservices-docs}#client-web-service-template[`WebServiceTemplate`] class.
Since `WebServiceTemplate` instances often need to be customized before being used, Spring Boot does not provide any single auto-configured `WebServiceTemplate` bean.
It does, however, auto-configure a `WebServiceTemplateBuilder`, which can be used to create `WebServiceTemplate` instances when needed.

The following code shows a typical example:

include-code::MyService[]

By default, `WebServiceTemplateBuilder` detects a suitable HTTP-based `WebServiceMessageSender` using the available HTTP client libraries on the classpath.
You can also customize read and connection timeouts as follows:

include-code::MyWebServiceTemplateConfiguration[]
