Trying to analyse some problem, I had to refer to wsdl 1.1 spec. There under the 'Types' section [http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_types , 3rd bullet point], there is this mention.
** Begin of Excerpt ** Array types should extend the Array type defined in the SOAP v1.1 encoding schema (http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/) (regardless of whether the resulting form actually uses the encoding specified in Section 5 of the SOAP v1.1 document). Use the name ArrayOfXXX for array types (where XXX is the type of the items in the array). The type of the items in the array and the array dimensions are specified by using a default value for the soapenc:arrayType attribute. At the time of this writing, the XSD specification does not have a mechanism for specifying the default value of an attribute which contains a QName value. To overcome this limitation, WSDL introduces the arrayType attribute (from namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/) which has the semantic of providing the default value. If XSD is revised to support this functionality, the revised mechanism SHOULD be used in favor of the arrayType attribute defined by WSDL. ** End of Excerpt ** So does this mean even in DOCUMENT/LITERAL and WRAPPED/LITERAL kind of wsdl we should have for an array type (e.g: public Point[] myPoints;) a wsdl that reads as <complexType name="ArrayOfPoint"> <complexContent> <restriction base="soapenc:Array"> <attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" wsdl:arrayType="impl:Point[]"/> </restriction> </complexContent> </complexType> Currently in axis we get a wsdl fragment that looks like <complexType name="ArrayOfPoint"> <sequence> <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="item" type="impl:Point"/> </sequence> </complexType> Which one is correct? Any insight into this issue will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance Jaya