All, This is a two part question.
PART 1. I am trying to create a document/literal service using Axis and have not had much success. My service would have a single method with a signature like this: public class SAMLRequest { public Document SAMLAssertion( Document doc ) { ... return doc; } } The deployment descriptor I am trying to use looks like this: <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"> <service name="SAMLRequestService" provider="java:MSG"> <parameter name="className" value="SAMLRequest"/> <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="SAMLAssertion"/> </service> </deployment> I noticed that in order for the generated WSDL to have a style="document" attribute I need to edit the server-config.wsdd and add style="document" to the service element. Adding the style="document" attribute to the WSDD for the service during deployment seems to have only temporary effect. This is evident by the fact that the server-config.wsdd does not have the attribute listed after the AdminClient is invoked. Is this a bug? PART 2. There is a public WSDL definition for the service I am trying to create but WSDL2Java is having trouble with it. The WSDL that I would have preferred to use is from the OASIS SSTC SAML developers list. The WSDL was recently published and I am listing it here with some minor edits. ===========START OF WSDL============== <?xml version="1.0"?> <definitions name="SAMLProtocol" targetNamespace="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/WSDLdefi nitions.wsdl" xmlns:tns="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/WSDLdefinition s.wsdl" xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"> <import namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" location="draft-sstc-schema-protocol-32.xsd"/> <!-- The body of the request is exactly a samlp:Request --> <message name="SAMLRequestMessage"> <part name="body" element="samlp:Request"/> </message> <!-- The body of the corresponding response is exactly a samlp:Response --> <message name="SAMLResponseMessage"> <part name="body" element="samlp:Response"/> </message> <!-- And the request-response protocol goes like this --> <portType name="SAMLRequestPortType"> <operation name="SAMLRequest"> <input message="tns:SAMLRequestMessage"/> <output message="tns:SAMLResponseMessage"/> </operation> </portType> <!-- This describes how the request-response maps onto SOAP --> <binding name="SAMLRequestSoapBinding" type="tns:SAMLRequestPortType"> <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/> <operation name="SAMLRequest"> <soap:operation soapAction="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/SAMLRequest"/> <input> <soap:body use="literal" namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> </input> <output> <soap:body use="literal" namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> </output> </operation> </binding> <!-- And this says that the SOAP service is available at a particular URL --> <service name="SAMLRequestService"> <documentation>This is the only per-installation data</documentation> <port name="SAMLRequestPort" binding="tns:SAMLRequestSoapBinding"> <soap:address location="http://my.org/SAMLServer"/> </port> </service> </definitions> ===========END OF WSDL============== The WSDL uses imported schemas and references the draft SAML protocol schema. The URL is http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-schema-protoco l-32.xsd. Within the protocol schema a reference to the SAML assertion schema (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-schema-assert ion-32.xsd) exists as yet another imported schema as well as an import of the XML digital signature schema. The first problem occurs because both the protocol schema and the assertion schema have import elements for the XML digital signature schema. This problem can be corrected by removing the first of the two XMLdsig# references. However, after this minor edit/correction I encountered this error which I cannot explain. java.io.IOException: Type http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:ID is referenced but not defined. at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.SymbolTable.checkForUndefined(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.SymbolTable.add(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.Emitter.emit(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.Emitter.emit(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java$WSDLRunnable.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) XMLSchema:ID should have been defined by the schema as far as I understand. Why is this failing in this way? Am I trying a very complicated WSDL that is not yet supported? The schemas used here are complicated but the net service can be reduced to the simpler service I am trying to produce in PART 1. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Alex Volanis Consulting Engineer e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]