Re: At my wits end - Axis2 and abstract types...

[Rodrigo Ruiz]

Justin,

Starting from a WSDL file that uses inheritance, I have successfully 
generated the beans, and they keep their hierarchy relationship, using 
Axis 1.2.1 (from within a Eclipse with WST). It only re-generates the 
beans if they are not in the classpath, so I am able to customize them, 
and keep the changes.

Perhaps your problem is that wsdl2java is generating a parallel bean 
hierarchy on another package. Try to print the class name of your bean's 
parent class.
If this is the problem, you should map the type namespace to the correct 
package, in order to allow the generator tool to know that the bean 
classes already exist. You will have to manually modify the generated 
deploy.wsdd, to indicate which class must be instantiated when 
deserializing your abstract bean. Otherwise, Axis will fail trying to 
instantiate your abstract bean.

HTH,
Rodrigo Ruiz