BabelFish Service

The Babel Fish service provides translation of arbitrary text for a few major languages.

WSDL Interface

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<definitions name="BabelFishService" xmlns:tns="http://www.xmethods.net/sd/BabelFishService.wsdl" targetNamespace="http://www.xmethods.net/sd/BabelFishService.wsdl" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
  <message name="BabelFishRequest">
    <part name="translationmode" type="xsd:string"/>
    <part name="sourcedata" type="xsd:string"/>
  </message>
  <message name="BabelFishResponse">
    <part name="return" type="xsd:string"/>
  </message>
  <portType name="BabelFishPortType">
    <operation name="BabelFish">
      <input message="tns:BabelFishRequest" />
      <output message="tns:BabelFishResponse" />
    </operation>
  </portType>
  <binding name="BabelFishBinding" type="tns:BabelFishPortType">
    <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <operation name="BabelFish">
      <soap:operation soapAction="urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish"/>
      <input>
        <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:xmethodsBabelFish" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:xmethodsBabelFish" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
      </output>
    </operation>
  </binding>
  <service name="BabelFishService">
    <documentation>Translates text of up to 5k in length, between a variety of languages.</documentation>
    <port name="BabelFishPort" binding="tns:BabelFishBinding">
      <soap:address location="http://services.xmethods.net:80/perl/soaplite.cgi"/>
    </port>
  </service>
</definitions>

BabelFish Client

If you invoke wsdl2java on the above WSDL document, you can run this client to interact with the service:

package babel;
                                                                           
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
                                                                           
public class Client
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
    |   String text = args.length > 0 ? args[0] : "Hello World";
    |   InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
    |   BabelFishService service =
    |       (BabelFishService) ctx.lookup("xmlrpc:soap:babel.BabelFishService");
    |   BabelFishPortType babel = service.getBabelFishPort();
    |   System.out.println(text + " => " + babel.babelFish("en_fr", text));
    }
}

Please refer to the README file for details on how to build and run the example.