I've written a SOAP application with a single method which invokes a specified method on an EJB. The name of the EJB and the name of the method are passed up as Strings. The return from the method is a single container-type object, say "A", whose instance fields contain Strings or primitives plus one Object which contains either a javax.ejb.Handle or a javax.ejb.HomeHandle.
In the deploy.wsdd, I have <beanMapping> entries for "A", Handle, and HomeHandle. When I run the application, passing ejbname "B" and method "create", I am getting an IOException claiming that "No Serializer can be found for class $Proxy27". I hacked the Axis code a bit, and found that the error occurs while trying to serialize MultiRefs in org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContextImpl.outputMultiRefs(), so I added code to accumulate descriptions of the multirefs in a StringBuffer, and dump it if the exception occurred. What I got was: MultiRef: com.aonix.Utilities.soap.UtSOAPHandle (I called this "A" above) Id: id0 QName: multiRef MultiRef: org.jboss.proxy.ejb.handle.StatelessHandleImpl (this is the JBoss implementation of Handle) Id: id1 QName: multiRef MultiRef: $Proxy27 Id: id2 QName: multiRef The exception occurs with this last one. So I added code to get the interfaces for this proxy class and print their names. The only interface implemented is the Remote interface for EJB "B", so this thing is clearly the object returned by the EJB's create() call. However, I can't figure out how Axis KNOWS about this thing. In my application class, I call the create() method, take the resulting EJBObject, get its Handle, and create an instance of the container class "A" which contains the Handle. That "A" object is what I return to Axis as a result. Nowhere, nohow am I giving Axis the actual EJBObject. I've trapped the return in Axis and verified this, and the fact that the multiref list contains an "org.jboss.proxy.ejb.handle.StatelessHandleImpl" entry bears this out --- Axis couldn't possibly know about this classname unless the object wrapped by the "A" instance was an instance of the class. I even checked the source code for StatelessHandleImpl. It's only instance field is a String. Can anybody tell me how Axis is picking up on this $Proxy class, and how I can keep it from doing so ? The first two multiref entries are all Axis should need to serialize the object I'm returning from the application class.
