I see the following exception in my java client when the response contains a date attribute value that looks like: 2009-06-25
java.lang.NumberFormatException: date string can not be less than 19 charactors at org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.ConverterUtil.convertToDateTime(ConverterUtil.java:993) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.typemapping.SimpleTypeMapper.makeDate(SimpleTypeMapper.java:313) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.typemapping.SimpleTypeMapper.getSimpleTypeObject(SimpleTypeMapper.java:114) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.BeanUtil.deserialize(BeanUtil.java:397) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.BeanUtil.processObject(BeanUtil.java:682) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.BeanUtil.ProcessElement(BeanUtil.java:601) at org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.BeanUtil.deserialize(BeanUtil.java:562) at org.apache.axis2.rpc.client.RPCServiceClient.invokeBlocking(RPCServiceClient.java:104) at com.bmc.bcan.ws.client.DeviceServiceStub.getDevices(DeviceServiceStub.java:86) I see this was a problem that was fixed in 1.4.1, as per : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4075 But I continue to see the problem in 1.5. Please help. Thanks, Suma