Jaya, For the document style web services the WSDL that Axis produces is correct. An array is represented as a sequence of 0 or more elements.
See the WS-I Basic profile for why this is so. -- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development > -----Original Message----- > From: jayachandra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:28 AM > To: axis-user@ws.apache.org; axis-dev@ws.apache.org > Subject: WSDL generation > > 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
