axis2: Retrieving the contents of an abstract class?

[Justin Schoeman]

Hi again,

Still battling to get Axis2 working properly here... When using 
WSDL2Java to generate a server and client, everything seems to work just 
fine, but I can't seem to get at the values of an abstract class.

Within the request document, there is an abstract property IDMethod.  I 
can retrieve this with:

IDMethod idm = req.getIDMethod();

No problem, but:

System.out.println(idm.getClass().getName());

returns: 
'za.co.eskom.nrs.www.xmlvend.base._2_0.schema.impl.IDMethodImpl' - which 
is an implementation of the abstract type, and cannot be cast down to 
the real type.

Am I missing something, or is abstract type handling completely broken 
in Axis2?

Thanks,

Justin