axis soap inheritance question

Hi there!

I got a problem with axis concerning inheritance. Here’s a section of my WSDL:

<xsd:complexType name="Item">

<xsd:sequence>

<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>

</xsd:sequence>

</xsd:complexType>

<xsd:complexType name="SubItem">

<xsd:complexContent>

<xsd:extension base="stp:Item">

<xsd:sequence>

<xsd:element name="length" type="xsd:int"></xsd:element>

</xsd:sequence>

</xsd:extension>

</xsd:complexContent>

</xsd:complexType>

The files are generated correctly by wsdl2java with ant.

Then in the implementation I create a new Sub_Item:

SubItem subItem = new SubItem();

subItem.setLength(5);

subItem.setName(“test”);

I add this subItem to my response object by using.

response.setItems(new Item[] {subItem})

But the result checked with the soap monitor only shows my SubItem as usual Item:

<item>

</item>

</response>

Hence my SubItem has been downcasted to a usual Item, loosing the specific SubItem information.

Shouldn’t this work different? Is there something I understand terribly wrong?

Thanks for your answers.

Kai

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