In theory, this should work without any problems. Looking at the error, it seems to me that BeanDeserializer is trying set a property of type java.util.Date, but you mentioned that your bean property is of type Calendar. So for some reason, xsd:dateTime is getting deserialized into java.util.Date instead of java.util.Calendar.
As far as I know for Schema version 2001, the default Type mapping registry maps both java.util.Date as well as Calendar to the CalendarSerialier/deserializer factory, which should handle the date/time correctly. Can you try this out.... specifically map xsd:dateTime to CalendarDeserializerFactory while deploying your webservice. <typeMapping deserializer ="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.CalendarDeserializerFactory" encodingStyle ="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; qname="xsd:dateTime" serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.CalendarSerializerFactory" type ="java:java.util.Calendar" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/> - Junaid "Ron Ridenour" <rridenour@siterr To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a.com> cc: Subject: Problem with Serialization of Calendar 10/30/2002 12:54 PM Please respond to axis-user I have a bean that has a Calendar field. The axis service correctly generates a wsdl for the service and bean as xsd:dateTime. The wsdl2Java utility correctly creates a class from the wsdl with Calendar type. When invoking the service with the client object the error below occurs. Notice that the serializer is a BeanDeserializer and not a CalendarDeserializer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ron 16:43:14,900 ERROR [BeanPropertyTarget] Could not convert java.util.Date to bean field 'dateEntered', type java.util.Date 16:43:14,910 ERROR [AxisServlet] Exception: AxisFault faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.userException faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXException faultActor: null faultDetail: stackTrace: org.xml.sax.SAXException at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanPropertyTarget.set(BeanPropertyTarget.java:172) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.valueComplete(DeserializerImpl.java:260) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.endElement(DeserializerImpl.java:502) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:942) at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:206) at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:684) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.startElement(DeserializerImpl.java:370) at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.startElement(BeanDeserializer.java:169) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:906) at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:200) at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:684) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:207) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:265) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:190) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:276) at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:71) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:156) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:126) at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:437) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:316) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:701) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:335) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:366) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:284) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:577) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1674) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:544) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1624) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:875) at org.jboss.jetty.Jetty.service(Jetty.java:541) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:785) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:935) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:802) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:200) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:294) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$JobRunner.run(ThreadPool.java:743) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
