Hi,

In a customer project, we have the following issue:

There are services with non-standard WSDL definitions, where pairs of 
operations have the same request payload, one operation is request-response for 
synchronous processing, one operation is one-way for collection of request and 
later asynchronous processing. The request payloads are provided as String or 
InputStream, and therefore the JAX-WS Dispatch shall be used for service 
invocation. Setting the MessageContext.WSDL_OPERATION property, the service 
invocation works properly unless WS-Addressing is activated.

With WS-Addressing, however, the WSDL_OPERATION property is ignored for 
internal message exchange setup, and the request is always treated as the 
one-way request, so that no response is returned. Further analysis of the CXF 
DispatchImpl shows, that in this case the WSDL_OPERATION property is overridden 
by the result of the lookup of a temporary request root element name -> 
operation name table. In this case the 2nd operation definition with the same 
payload root element wins, which in our case is the one-way version.

This problem could be overcome by a simple processing change in DispatchImpl: 
When the WSDL_OPERATION is explicitly set, and WS-Addressing is activated, the 
check of the payload should be performed the other way round, i.e. the 
temporary map is created as operation name -> request payload root element name 
and verifies that the root element name corresponds to the operation name, even 
if the root element is not unique. If this check fails, behaviour falls back to 
the current one.

As we assume that there may be more cases with similar situations, and with 
explicit setting of the WSDL_OPERATION, the expected behaviour is that this 
hint is not overridden unless it is really inconsistent, we would file a Jira 
issue with a proposed fix.

Kind regards,

Andreas Mattes

Talend Germany

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