Hi Simon, AFAK, Apache SOAP doesn´t include a tool which automaticalley creates a deployment descriptor for you. You have to write it by yourself. There are several tools (e.g. IBM Webservice Toolkit) which helps you with this. It also supports creating a wsdl-definition for your soap-server.
The type mapping is only required for complex datatypes. All datatypes which are defined by the xml schema specs (integer, string) doesn´t need a type mapping. Hope this helps Stefan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Wallis, Simon (Toronto - 22 Front) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 28. Januar 2002 19:46 An: Soap-User (E-mail) Betreff: Deployment Descriptors Hi there, I have a couple of questions about Deployment Descriptors: 1) Is there any tool that creates these XML files for you? Or must I create them manually for each class? 2) Do I need to provide a type mapping if I'm returning a simple data type such as a string or integer, or is it only for complex data types? Thanks, Simon.