The suds project is a python soap web services client lib. Suds leverages python meta programming to provide an intuative API for consuming web services. Runtime objectification of types defined in the WSDL is provided without class generation.
MaxJ (MaximusJ) is a java based client for accessing/invoking document style literal SOAP based web services. It shall be different from existing java web service tools by extensively parsing and making available the meta information on the WSDL file.