Take a look at betwixt in the jakarta project. - dave
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Pete Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:05:20 -0400 >Gents, I have a class I'm returning that follows standard javabean get/set >conventions. On the client side, I have a "generic" axis client that handles scalar >types (String, Integer, etc.) as well as Element. My question is, is there any way I >can return, say, an Employee bean from my web service menthod, and cast it to >Element/XML on the client side? I've tried to do this, but if my bean has, say: > >firstname >lastname >salary > >fields.. I see via TCPMON the SOAP response contains ><firstname>..</firstname><lastname>...</lastname> etc. and their correct values, but >my Axis client code (when I specify return type of Constants.SOAP_ELEMENT), just gets >the <firstname> Element, and seems to think that's the whole document. I've tried a >beanmapping like this and many other variants: > ><beanMapping qname="apachesoap:Element" >xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"; >languageSpecificType="java:com.mycompany.Employee"/> > >Anything I can do here to get the whole response document? The WSDL is even >generating fine, generating the complexType for Employee perfectly using the >beanMapping above. > >Thanks >Pete > >
