map bean to XML

[Pete Clark]

Gents, I have a class I'm returning that follows standard javabean get/set conventions.  On the client side, I have a "generic" axis client that handles scalar types (String, Integer, etc.) as well as Element.  My question is, is there any way I can return, say, an Employee bean from my web service menthod, and cast it to Element/XML on the client side?  I've tried to do this, but if my bean has, say:   firstname lastname salary   fields.. I see via TCPMON the SOAP response contains <firstname>..</firstname><lastname>...</lastname>  etc. and their correct values, but my Axis client code (when I specify return type of Constants.SOAP_ELEMENT), just gets the <firstname> Element, and seems to think that's the whole document.  I've tried a beanmapping like this and many other variants:   <beanMapping qname="apachesoap:Element"  xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" languageSpecificType="java:com.mycompany.Employee"/>    Anything I can do here to get the whole response document?  The WSDL is even generating fine, generating the complexType for Employee perfectly using the beanMapping above.   Thanks Pete