I have made a very simple web service on an Axis2 Tomcat driven server. Axis generates the wsdl fine heres a snippet.
<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://ws.apache.org/axis2";> <wsdl:documentation>SimpleService</wsdl:documentation> − <wsdl:types> − <xs:schema attributeFormDefault="qualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/xsd";> − <xs:element name="echo"> − <xs:complexType> − <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="param0" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> − <xs:element name="echoResponse"> − <xs:complexType> − <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="return" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema> </wsdl:types> − <wsdl:message name="echoMessage"> <wsdl:part name="part1" element="ns0:echo"/> </wsdl:message> − <wsdl:message name="echoResponse"> <wsdl:part name="part1" element="ns0:echoResponse"/> </wsdl:message> − <wsdl:portType name="SimpleServicePortType"> − <wsdl:operation name="echo"> <wsdl:input message="axis2:echoMessage" wsaw:Action="urn:echo"/> <wsdl:output message="axis2:echoResponse"/> </wsdl:operation> </wsdl:portType> − <wsdl:binding name="SimpleServiceSOAP11Binding" type="axis2:SimpleServicePortType"> <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"; style="document"/> − <wsdl:operation name="echo"> ......snippet ends I have also made a client that can communicate with the echo service but ONLY if I use the targetnamespace of the schema and not the one for wsdl definitions, and I have absolutely no idea why. The request for the client request looks like this: <v:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:c="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:v="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";><v:Header /><v:Body><n0:echo id="o0" c:root="1" xmlns:n0="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/xsd";><param0 i:type="d:string">Test af Soap Webservice</param0></n0:echo></v:Body></v:Envelope> The response looks like this: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";><soapenv:Header /><soapenv:Body><ns:echoResponse xmlns:ns="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/xsd";><ns:return>echo value is: Test af Soap Webservice</ns:return></ns:echoResponse></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> And all is fine, but if I change the namespace to: "xmlns:ns=" http://ws.apache.org/axis2"; instead, then I get a faultcode with unknown method echo. According to all sorts of books and ressources on the net, the WSDL definitions namespace address ALL the elements in the document, so why is it that if I change the namespace to the defintions namespace then my client gets a faultcode saying that the echo method is not known? I am missing out on something here I know so please point me in the right direction.
