Darren, It would help if you could send along the error that is generated by the Novell WSDL tool. What exactly is it complaining about? The only difference that I noticed right away was the use of SOAP Encoded string type vs. the XML Schema string type.
I will also not that CFMX Updater 3 was released today (March 19, 2003) that includes the Axis 1.0 final release. Previous versions of ColdFusion MX (final, U1 & U2) used Axis 1.0 beta 3. A subsequent point release will most likely contain Axis 1.1 (if we can ever stamp it DONE :-). -- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development -----Original Message----- From: Darren Houle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Axis, WSDL, and Coldfusion MX Greetings! I have a technical question that I'm hoping someone on this list might be able to help with... like maybe Tom J. <nudge><nudge> :-) Okay, here goes... I am running CFMX (no updates or service packs installed as of yet) and have built several web services (CFC's) that all work fantastically and totally as advertised. I can view the auto-gen WSDL and auto-gen documentation in my browser, and DreamWeaver MX will discover and display all the internal functions, required arguments, etc. I LOVE how easy this is, but I did run into a problem just today... I have a consultant onsite trying to set up Novell's new eXtend portal, runs on J2EE and contains portlets that can consume external web services. He ran into trouble when I supplied my CFMX WSDL URL for consumption in his "Director" development tool. It found the component on my server but couldn't stub out the functions or arguments contained within. He thinks the CFMX WSDL being auto-generated is missing some critical data or has malformed syntax, but from my understanding the Axis 1.0 implementation in CFMX is fully SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.0 compliant and shouldn't be auto-gen'ing anything incorrectly. More likely his consumption portlet is not compliant with something somewhere and can't handle the awesomeness of Axis :-). I've included a working WSDL and a non-working WSDL for comparison but I'm new to SOAP and WSDL so I'm having trouble even knowing where to start. Any help would be *greatly* appreciated. I know that other platforms such as .NET are able to consume CFMX web services without this problem, so my first guess is that Novell is the problem, but I need to find out for sure if at all possible. Thanks a million! Darren Houle Sr. Web Developer Health First, Inc. ------------------------------------------------- WSDL Works in Novell eXtend ------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <definitions name="MyWeatherWSService" targetNamespace="urn:com.exsamp.mwws.MyWeather" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"; xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"; xmlns:tns="urn:com.exsamp.mwws.MyWeather"> <types/> <message name="getForecastRequest"> <part name="arg0" type="xsd:string"/> </message> <message name="getForecastResponse"> <part name="result" type="xsd:string"/> </message> <portType name="MyWeatherWS"> <operation name="getForecast" parameterOrder="arg0"> <input message="tns:getForecastRequest"/> <output message="tns:getForecastResponse"/> </operation> </portType> <binding name="MyWeatherWSBinding" type="tns:MyWeatherWS"> <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/> <operation name="getForecast"> <soap:operation soapAction="urn:com.exsamp.mwws.MyWeather/getForecast"/> <input> <soap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="urn:com.exsamp.mwws.MyWeather" use="encoded"/> </input> <output> <soap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="urn:com.exsamp.mwws.MyWeather" use="encoded"/> </output> </operation> </binding> <service name="MyWeatherWSService"> <port binding="tns:MyWeatherWSBinding" name="MyWeatherWSPort"> <soap:address location="http://localhost/MyWebServicesDB/MyWebServices/MyWeather"/> </port> </service> </definitions> -------------------------------------------------------------- WSDL Does not work in Novell eXtend -------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://prod.cfc"; xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"; xmlns:intf="http://prod.cfc"; xmlns:impl="http://prod.cfc-impl"; xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";> <wsdl:message name="getGroupsRequest"> <wsdl:part name="dnum" type="SOAP-ENC:string" /> </wsdl:message> <wsdl:message name="getGroupsResponse"> <wsdl:part name="return" type="SOAP-ENC:string" /> </wsdl:message> <wsdl:message name="getNameRequest"> <wsdl:part name="dnum" type="SOAP-ENC:string" /> </wsdl:message> <wsdl:message name="getNameResponse"> <wsdl:part name="return" type="SOAP-ENC:string" /> </wsdl:message> <wsdl:message name="CFCInvocationException" /> <wsdl:portType name="hbo_phys_info"> <wsdl:operation name="getName" parameterOrder="dnum"> <wsdl:input message="intf:getNameRequest" /> <wsdl:output message="intf:getNameResponse" /> <wsdl:fault name="CFCInvocationException" message="intf:CFCInvocationException" /> </wsdl:operation> <wsdl:operation name="getGroups" parameterOrder="dnum"> <wsdl:input message="intf:getGroupsRequest" /> <wsdl:output message="intf:getGroupsResponse" /> <wsdl:fault name="CFCInvocationException" message="intf:CFCInvocationException" /> </wsdl:operation> </wsdl:portType> <wsdl:binding name="hbo_phys_info.cfcSoapBinding" type="intf:hbo_phys_info"> <wsdlsoap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"; /> <wsdl:operation name="getName"> <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="" /> <wsdl:input> <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://prod.cfc"; /> </wsdl:input> <wsdl:output> <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://prod.cfc"; /> </wsdl:output> </wsdl:operation> <wsdl:operation name="getGroups"> <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="" /> <wsdl:input> <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://prod.cfc"; /> </wsdl:input> <wsdl:output> <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://prod.cfc"; /> </wsdl:output> </wsdl:operation> </wsdl:binding> <wsdl:service name="hbo_phys_infoService"> <wsdl:port name="hbo_phys_info.cfc" binding="intf:hbo_phys_info.cfcSoapBinding"> <wsdlsoap:address location="http://hfmodule1.health-first.org/cfc/prod/hbo_phys_info.cfc"; /> </wsdl:port> </wsdl:service> </wsdl:definitions> "MMS <health-first.org>" made the following annotations on 03/19/2003 04:07:55 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is for the named person's use only. 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