Do I need to use WSDL stubs ?

[Aoife . Kavanagh]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to SOAP and Axis and I'm hoping somebody can help me out.

I'm using Axis 1.1 to write a client to talk to a web service.  I have used the service WSDL to generate stubs etc.  The data to be passed to the service is XML data.  That is, the SOAP body of my message contains an XML string.  The WSDL definition of this parameter type is described in its own xsd file so the java type generated to represent this parameter is a Java object and not a simple string.  Consequently the generated remote interface expects an parameter of this type.

However, what the client will get passed is a an XML string which I guess is the string representation of the data to be sent rather than an instance of the Java object expected by the generated stubs and remote interface.  What I'm wondering is is there any way that I can convert this string to the required Java object without having to parse the XML string and call each individual set method on the Java object?  

I want my client to be able to just read in the XML string representing the data to be sent and to somehow use this as the parameter rather than generated object.  Is there any way of doing this or of converting the string to the java object?  

Thanks,
Aoife