ant tasks

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi,

I've been having some problems with the axis ant tasks. We're running 
axis-1_1 and ant 1.5.1beta1 (should probably upgrade ant). We were doing 
everything by hand (running loads of different commands from a shell) 
and this worked ok, but now are trying to automate things and at the 
same time standardise on ant. We've run into a couple of snags which 
we'd apreciate help with.

Firstly, for the tasks axis-wsdl2java and axis-java2wsdl, how do I 
specify the classpath it should search for my web service classes? Since 
some of the classes are generated earlier in the ant script, they can't 
be in the classpath of the ant process itself. Neither ant task appears 
to have a classpath attribute.

Seccondly, we have written a custom serializer/deserializer for a 
data-type we are passing through an AXIS web service. I saw that you 
hook these in using <typeMapping> elements in the deploy.wsdd file. 
However, axis-wsdl2java, which seems to generate deploy.wsdd, doesn't 
seem to have any way to specify type mappings. It looks like the maping 
attributes are for assigning namespaces to packages, not to 
serializer/deserializer factory classes.

Oh, and the docs at 
http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/ant/axis-java2wsdl.html are badly 
formatted today (both in mozilla and explorer) - the tables containing 
the task properties have everything on one long line rather than in 
mulitple cells.

Thanks,

Matthew