Hi Pradeep, in your staring mail
> 3.since the current implementation uses dom element this mechanism > results in a double parsing when its a WSDL20.possible solution is > using > Axiom instead of dom so that when namespace checking it does not parse > the entire WSDL. I agree with this Axiom based approach to identify the version of WSDL document. > The way you are suggesting seems to > be based on Exception handling. So once the Exception is thrown from > this(if the WSDL is 1.1) then we have to > parse it again to a *wsdl4j.definition* in order to feed the > WSDL11ToAxisServiceBuilder. So problem is not addressed. not exactly , what I'm suggesting is use your Axiom based approach to identify the the version of WSDL not using Exception handling . Then if it is a WSDL 1.1 you could parse it with WSDL4J reader and in the case of WSDL 2.0 use Woden reader instead of serialize it to get it as a InputStream. Because once you provide a InputStream to WSDL20ToAxisServiceBuilder it will parse it again to get org.apache.woden.wsdl20.Description my point is to eliminate this extra serialization step as follows 1. Identify the version of the WSDL using your Axiom approach. 2. if it is wsdl1.1 call wsdl4j reader ....and so on 3. if it is a wsdl2.0 call woden reader to get org.apache.woden.wsdl20.Description and pass this Description to WSDL20ToAxisServiceBuilder as a constructor argument. ( same way as WSDL11ToAxisServiceBuilder) Further you may use Woden's OMWSDLReader implementation , because it's also based on Axiom. Thanks , Sagara Gunathunga Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com Web - http://sagaras.awardspace.com/