I was encountering an "Invalid element" error when I attempted to receive a response message with my Axis client (Siebel service). I found this error mentioned many times in the axis-user mailing list archives, but was unable to find anyone listing an explanation or a solution.
I debugged through the Axis code and noticed that the error was occurring because when BeanDeserializer.onStartChild is called, the "propertyMap" has "listOfUsbCustomerElement" as the child description, while the element is actually named "ListOfUsbCustomerElement". When I traced this back, I found that the lower-case name is coming from a call in the BeanDeserializerFactory that ends up retrieving the bean properties through introspection; hence, lower-case first letter in property names. As the archived email I reference below explains, one way around it is to customize the BeanInfo interface... I imagine Axis must somewhere normally provide a mapping to get from the Java name to the XML name... can anyone point me in the right direction? I suspect something is missing in my set up. In the meantime, I'll continue exploring... if I figure it out, I'll post the solution back here for anyone else who runs into this... Meghan Pietila Granite Consulting Archived mail referencing this problem: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=axis-user&m=103705794612785&w=2 Partial stacktrace illustrating the resulting error (Axis 1.2.1): 04-08-2005 15:16:36,688 [ERROR] org.apache.axis.client.Call: Exception: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Invalid element in com.blank.www.ListOfUsbCustomerOfferTopElmt - ListOfUsbCustomerOffer at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.onStartChild(BeanDeserializer.java:258) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startElement(DeserializationContext.java:1 035) at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:165) at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:1141) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:345) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:384) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2448) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2347) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1804)
