Dennis - Thanks. I was under the impression (from the "Service Styles" section in the user's guide) that Axis can do this now. Unfortunately, the "When Beans Are Not Enough - Custom Serialization" section is not complete.
Matt Crawford Enterprise Rent-A-Car -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Document style web services Hi Matt, The whole point of document style is that your application gets passed the XML message payload as XML document fragments. See the "message" sample for an example of this. With a document style interface your class would look like: public class SomeXMLService { public Element[] someXMLMethod(Element[] elems) { ... } } If you want to convert the XML into objects you need to do it yourself, perhaps using a framework such as Castor (http://www.castor.org). I know there's been some integration of Castor with Axis, though I think this was for custom serialization with RPC style. This brings up an interesting point, though. Why not have a Java DataBindingProvider as a replacement for the MsgProvider? This should allow easy use of document style while converting seamlessly between XML and objects without the application needing any special code. I'm looking into some data binding code currently, perhaps I'll see if I can work in this direction. - Dennis Dennis M. Sosnoski Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support http://www.sosnoski.com Crawford, Matt wrote: >Hello, > >Has anyone had experience with document style web services similar to the >one shown below? The users guide indicates that "Document services do not >use any encoding (so in particular, you won't see multiref object >serialization or SOAP-style arrays on the wire) but DO still do XML<->Java >databinding." > >I'm looking to leverage this databinding to serialize and deserialize xml >documents in the body, but the samples/encoding (from what I can tell) deals >with rpc style, not document style. > >Thanks, >Matt Crawford >Enterprise Rent-A-Car > > ><SOAP-ENV:Envelope >xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; >xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; > ><SOAP-ENV:Body> > <SomeXmlElement xmlns="http://www.somUri.org/someClassName"; >anAttribute="foo"> > <AnotherXmlElement value="X"/> > <AThirdXmlElement value="three"/> > </SomeXmlElement> ></SOAP-ENV:Body> ></SOAP-ENV:Envelope> > >Would somehow map to (with appropriate typeMapping entries) > >public class SomeXmlService() { > public SomeXmlResponse method(SomeXmlElement arg0) { > return new SomeXmlReponse(); > } >} > > >
