On Nov 12, 2007 4:06 PM, Mauro Molinari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amila Suriarachchi ha scritto:
> > hi,
> >
> > I think this is a confusion lot of people made.
> >
> > when developing web services there are two mehtods.
> > 1. contract first approach.
> >       here you start with the wsdl file (contract ) and use the
> > wsdl2java to generte the code. so it generates a
> >       custom message receiver for you.
> > 2. code first approach.
> >        here you start with code and axis2 generates a wsdl for you.
> > here you must use the RPCMessageReceiver.
> >
> > when developing a service you have to choose one. and you can not use
> > RPCMessageReceiver with the generated code.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Amila.
>
> Hi Amila,
> yes, this is clear. But suppose that I follow a mixed approach:
> 1) I (manually) write the WSDL
> 2) I (manually) write the Java code that implements the service on the
> server, as a POJO, respecting the interface defined in the WSDL (so: a
> method for each operation, with the same name; method signatures
> coherent with the messages defined in the WSDL for each operation and so on)
> 3) I (manually) write a services.xml that declares my Java code as the
> service class and that states to use RPCMessageReceiver

if you have done the wsdl and message receiver mapping correctly. it
should work.
RPCMessageReceiver is also another message receiver.

thanks,
Amila.
>
> This should work, shouldn't it?
>
> The benefits of this approach I can think of are:
> - I do not have to care about WSDL2Java problems like the missing
> unwrapping of elements corresponding to empty types
> - I do not have to manage any (useless?) custom message receivers
> - I should have total control over both the WSDL and the Java code,
> while keeping the implementation simple and straightforward
>
> The only drawback I can think of is that it could become quite hard to
> manage services that exchange complex types (e.g.: Java beans) by using
> this approach. In that case, using a custom message receiver may be
> compulsory...
>
> Do I have understood it correctly? Or do you think I'm missing something
> else?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Mauro Molinari
> Software Developer
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>
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