I had the same problem: I use castor to serialize my parameters and it added the xsi:type attribute, so the request was rejected at server side, complaining that it is not valid. I first tried to do this in my stub class: call.setOption(Call.SEND_TYPE_ATTR, Boolean.FALSE); But it did not work because the Castor serializer does not care... So I looked for the option in the Castor classes and found that there is a suppressXSIType field in the Marshaller class. So it finally worked fine by doing the following in the CastorSerializer class: marshaller.setSuppressXSIType(true); Sorry for this late response, I hope this can help... Johan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Clement Lyons" <Clement.Lyons To: <axis-user@ws.apache.org> @comindico.com.a cc: u> Subject: Using Castor Serialization results in xsi:type coding being specified in the SOAP message 04/05/2005 09:27 Please respond to axis-user Hi I'm setting up a web using Axis 1.2 RC3 using castor for (De)serialization as described in http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-castor/ as I want to use the castor XML validation. When I run the example supplied I get the following I get the following response <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <soapenv:Body> <getStockQuoteResponse xmlns="http://comindico.com.au/sqtest"> <quote xsi:type="quote"> <symbol>IBM</symbol> <volume>979012312</volume> <lastTrade> <price>678.0</price> <date>1115179465600</date> </lastTrade> <change> <dollar>678.0</dollar> <percent>300.0</percent> <positive>true</positive> </change> </quote> </getStockQuoteResponse> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> I am relatively new to Web Service and Axis but my understanding is that this is a wrapped service and that the xsi:type coded in the <quote> element should not be there as the WSDL specifies literal. When I use the Axis Bean (De)serialization this is not present. Can anyone tell me 1. If this is correct/incorrect behaviour 2. If this will cause any interop issues 3. If there is a fix or work around for this I've had a browse in the lists but can't find anything on this. /Clement