Support for Web services is not in-built into ADempiere and is also not part of the trunk (main branch) in the SVN repository. The Web services support was sponsored and the seed code was provided by 3E and the complete code resides, at the time of writing this book, in the branches\3E_WebServices folder of the ADempiere SVN repository. This recipe takes us through the steps required to build and deploy the Web services so that they can be used in conjunction with our ADempiere application.
To execute the steps mentioned in this recipe, we need to ensure that we have got the working and deployable version of the adempiere_360 project in Eclipse. You may refer to Chapter 1, Preparing the Ground to do so, if you have not already done it.
1. Check out the https://adempiere.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/adempiere/branches/3E_WebServices SVN URL in
<ADEMPIERE_SVN>\branches.2. Launch Eclipse.
3. Import the newly checked out
3E_WebServices...