We have succesfully migrated from beta 2 to beta 3. But this was not as smooth as it should have been, see my comments bellow:
- Our WSDLs contains complex types with some elements defined with a maxOccurs="unbounded". This is naturally turned into an array by the WSDL2Java. There are 2 setXXX methods, one taking an initialized array and another one taking 2 parameters: index, element. In beta 2 the second method (index + element) was checking that the array was not null, now the generated code skips this checking which leads to a NullPointerException (if this method is being used). Immediate workaround: use the first setXXX method passing an initialized array real workaround: fix the generated code. A good apparoach would be to use an ArrayList instead of an array (number of elements not known all the time). - I am glad that the ServiceLifeCycle interface is know being picked up when the service is created. The problem is that the context is null ??? Another problem is that the type of the context (MessageContext) is the wrong type !! The jax-rpc specification talks about a ServletEndpointContext in the case of a servlet based web service (page 80 of the spec). Then a method getMessageContext within this ServletEndpointContext returns the targeted context for invocation. Immediate workaround: Should I still use the "ugly" code to get to the context, ServletContext which is described in the mailing list ? (using a static object, ...) ? real workaround: There are 2 problems to fix: one immediate: the context is null, the other one would be implementing the ServletEndpointContext, but I understand that there are many things to work on Axis and that might not have been the priority. - I have switched from calling the WSDL2java within my ant build file using the java task to now using the axis ant tasks defined in the test directory. I have not seen any problems using these, and it is much faster (you do not have to fork an extra jvm, ....) Otherwise, I have not seen any other major bugs, all our unit tests are working fine. Axis is great and performances are amazing. Olivier
