I'm receiving a "ClassNotFoundException: byte" exception when invoking a web service with two complex type parameters, one of which contains an element which is a restriction to the "byte" base type.
The service stubs and skeletons were generated with the WSDL2JAVA tool and I can see that one of the generated classes indeed has an attribute of type byte. I'm using the Bean Serializer/Deserializer. Is there any limitation of the Bean Serializer/Deserializer concerning primitive data types? Following is the generated fault when I call the service: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 4306 Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 11:39:20 GMT Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 (HTTP/1.1 Connector) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <SOAP-ENV:Fault> <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Server.userException</faultcode> <faultstring>org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: byte</faultstring> <detail> <ns2:stackTrace xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: byte
 at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.makeNewInstance(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.getInstance(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.getService(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.getService(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.getService(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.MessageContext.setTargetService(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.handlers.http.URLMapper.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(Unknown Source)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:201)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2344)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:462)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:163)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1011)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1106)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
 </ns2:stackTrace> </detail> </SOAP-ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> Many thanks for any help, Nuno Guerreiro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/