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http://www.pastehere.com/?kndvie (I am managing to get this service to work as 'null' will return from my Test class, but ultimately what I want Employees being returned). Thanks again for any help. <rest of post left below for more detail, but no new comments below> On 3/29/06, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, pardon for this newbie-ish question. I have been googling > for a long time and I'm also having difficulty finding an answer in > the archives since I'm not sure how to phrase the questions (and too > many search results on just WSDL2Java). > > Anyway, I was able to follow along with this tutorial on axis that I > found very helpful > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/06/05/axis.html?page=2 but now > I want to have my simple service return something more complicated > than an int so I decided to make a class that would return to me an > array of Employee objects. > > In my com.maintenance package I have: > > Employee //simple POJO String employeeName; > int employeeId > EmployeeMaintenance //interface > EmployeeMaintenanceImpl //implemenation with Employee[] getEmployees method > > I then used Java2WSDL: > > java org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL -o employee.wsdl > -l"http://localhost:8080/axis/services/employee"; -n > urn:com.maintenance -p"com.maintenance" urn:com.maintenance > com.maintenance.EmployeeMaintenance > > to make my wsdl ( generated code I pasted here > http://www.pastehere.com/?oivegh ). > > Now, following how I did things from the tutorial, I use WSDL2Java to > create my stub classes. Running this from the classes dir where my > wsdl is: > > java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java -o ..\src -d Session -s -p > com.maintenance.ws employee.wsdl. > > When I look at the generated EmployeeSoapBindingImpl class in my new > package com.maintenance.ws, it has a method signature for > getEmployees that looks like: > > public com.maintenance.ws.Employee[] getEmployees() > throws java.rmi.RemoteException { > return null; > } > > The problem now is that I want to edit this class like I did in the > tutorial example so that I can return an Employee[] array that my > com.maintenance.EmployeeMaintenanceIpml gives me, but for some reason > the return signature on the SoapBindingImpl is using the > com.mainteance.ws.Employee class it generated in the com.mainteance.ws > package (not the package com.maintenance ). > > If rather than try to to build the stub classes to a new package with > WSDL2Java, I instead run it in the same package where I have my > initial files (Employee, EmployeeMaintenance, EmployeeMaintenaceImpl), > I end up getting Employee overwritten by the WSDL2Java command which I > guess is ok since it really is basically the same file. > > In both situations, I'm also sure that this is probably a problem. > Although my classes all compile, IDEA is letting me know that for the > getEmployees() method below that > > "org.apache.axis.description.typedesc not public or does not allow > instantiation." > > //EmployeeSoapBindingImpl implements com.maintenance.EmployeeMaintenance > public com.maintenance.Employee[] getEmployees() throws > java.rmi.RemoteException { > > > I'm also running into problems trying to access getEmployees after I > deploy it (stand along access connects but getting AxisFault > NoClassDefFoundError. wsdl is out there and jar with bundled classes > in axis/web-inf/lib looks ok). But rather than tackle that issue here > (which might be related to something above), I'd like to make sure I'm > at least doing things correctly above. I've been googling but I'm > having trouble finding some good examples that demonstrate returning > back arrays of objects or collections with axis/web services. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Rick > -- Rick
