String[] return type and ArrayList

[Sameer Pradhan]

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Hi everyone,   I am SURE this question must have been asked before, but I didn't find it in the recent archives.   I have a wrapped service which returns String[].   The WSDD entry for that is       <operation name="getWorkItemChoices" qname="operNS:getWorkItemChoices" xmlns:operNS="urn:ifws" returnQName="retNS:getWorkItemChoicesReturn" xmlns:retNS="urn:ifws" returnType="rtns:string" xmlns:rtns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" soapAction="" >         <parameter qname="pns:in0" xmlns:pns="urn:ifws" type="tns:string" xmlns:tns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>         <parameter qname="pns:in1" xmlns:pns="urn:ifws" type="tns:string" xmlns:tns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>         <parameter qname="pns:in2" xmlns:pns="urn:ifws" type="tns:long" xmlns:tns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>       </operation>   The client code is: Service srv = new Service("http://localhost:49950/iflowws/services/IFWebServices?wsdl", new QName(ns, "IFService")); Call call = (Call)srv.createCall(new QName(ns, "IFPort"), new QName(ns, "getWorkItemChoices")); Object result = call.invoke( new Object[] { u, p, new Long(id)} );   I found that when the service returns an array of ONE element, the "result" is a String object. But when the service returns an array of two or more elements, the "result" is an ArrayList of Strings.   Question 1: Is this normal AXIS behaviour? Question 2: I would like it to return the same type of Object (an ArrayList) whether the service is returning 0, 1, or more elements. How can I do that?   Thanks, Sameer