Anyone without an established investment in Apache SOAP should choose Axis. It supports more specifications and will continue to support newer ones as they are developed.
Scott Nichol Do not send e-mail directly to this e-mail address, because it is filtered to accept only mail from specific mail lists. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Abramson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:56 AM Subject: RE: Calling an Axis Web Service with a SOAP client Thanks Scott, that works perfectly. Quick question: I'm building a web service system that includes some stuff that's on a .NET platform. I'm trying to assess whether I'm better off using Axis or standard (apache) SOAP, bearing in mind that I may have pass around non-basic types. What do the experts say? Thanks again, Ben -----Original Message----- From: Scott Nichol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2005 19:19 To: [email protected] Cc: Ben Abramson Subject: Re: Calling an Axis Web Service with a SOAP client Apache SOAP 2.3.1 does not de-serialize SOAP-ENC types by default (they are not mapped), just XSD types. The current source (post 2.3.1) will de-serialize SOAP-ENC types, I believe. Alternatively, your code map SOAPMappingRegistry smr = new SOAPMappingRegistry(); StringDeserializer sd = new StringDeserializer(); smr.mapTypes(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, new QName("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";, "string"), null, null, sd); cl.setSOAPMappingRegistry(smr); Scott Nichol Do not send e-mail directly to this e-mail address, because it is filtered to accept only mail from specific mail lists. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Abramson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:29 AM Subject: Calling an Axis Web Service with a SOAP client Hello, I have written an Axis web service, which I have successfully invoked with an Axis client. I'm now trying to write an equivalent client using standard SOAP. The relevant code in the SOAP client looks something like: cl.setTargetObjectURI("urn:dohello"); cl.setMethodName("sayHello"); cl.setEncodingStyleURI(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC); Vector params = new Vector(); params.addElement(new Parameter("name", String.class, name, null)); params.addElement(new Parameter("age", Integer.class, a, null)); cl.setParams(params); When I then try to invoke the call using the command: response = cl.invoke(ept, ""); Where 'ept' is the URL of my service. I'm expecting a string back (nothing complex), but I get an exception that tells me it can't find a deserializer: [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client; msg=No Deserializer found to deserialize a 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/:string' using encoding style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'.; targetException=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No Deserializer found to deserialize a 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/:string' using encoding style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'.] I've tried messing around with SOAPMappingRegistry, but it seems to make no difference at all, I added the lines: SOAPMappingRegistry smr = new SOAPMappingRegistry(); StringDeserializer sd = new StringDeserializer(); smr.mapTypes(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, new QName("", "sayHelloReturn"), null, null, sd); cl.setSOAPMappingRegistry(smr); But it made no difference. I know I'm getting a valid response from my Web Service, the xml that comes back from the call looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:sayHelloResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:ns1="urn:dohello"> <sayHelloReturn xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";> Hello Ben, aged 26 </sayHelloReturn> </ns1:sayHelloResponse> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> It just seems that my client can't unwrap it properly to give me the result. I can't find anywhere that seems to provide me with enough detail to identify the root of my problem. Can anyone help? Ben P.S. Are there any plans to put functionality into Axis so that complex types can be easily passed around to other platforms? 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