Hi, I've been researching the problem of consuming a DotNet DataSet with a Java/Axis client. I've found a few tidbits here and there, usually saying things like "don't do it", "it won't work", etc.
My problem is that I don't have a choice. I'm in a position where a 3rd party web service provider has chosen to lock into the .NET platform and returns DataSets from their web methods -- at the very best they'll give DataSet.GetXML. What I've got to do (and I suspect others would, too, in increasing numbers) is to consume these DataSets and write them out to, say, an HTML table. It would be great to have a utility, a component, that takes a String representing the output of DataSet.GetXML on the .NET side, and converts it to something like a JDBC ResultSet, or at least an even simpler data structure. I've found several promising posts by Rick Kellogg, such as: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=axis-user&m=104577986220584&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=axis-dev&m=104620934932609&w=2 It seems, though, that Rick has addressed the inverse problem of ResultSet to DataSet. I realize there is Bug 8419 (DotNet's DataSet is not supported), but it seems like there has to be some workaround, at least dealing with the output of DataSet.GetXML. I'll admit my experience has been limited to web services that only deal with primitives and arrays, allowing me to avoid having to worry too much about the SOAP itself. So maybe I'm missing something obvious here. What's unfortunate to me is that a .NET webservice client can consume the DataSet returned by a webmethod in 3 clicks and have it dumping to an HTML table without knowing anything about the protocols. This is in contrast to a Java/Axis client that may end up having to worry about parsing XML and understanding the DataSet's associated Schema. In effect, this results in a (familiar) pollution of an open standard, which nobody in the Java community wants to see happen. I'd be grateful for any information, even if it is "we tried this and here's why it didn't work". Thank you, DJM __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
