I have had very good luck with implementing my server using Axis (1.1) and very rapidly developing a .NET client with wsdl.exe and C#, with no problems really. I'm not trying to bring up an OS X client and having some troubles with complex data types. Does anyone have any advice about using the WebServicesCore framework with an Axis server?
The details of my situation are that I've used JavaBeans for some complex data types and the built in bean serializer from Axis. On OS X I've used WSMakeStubs to get started. I then made a minor modification to the class it generated because it was looking at the result element named "functionReturn" and Axis sends "ns1:functionReturn" (I'm assuming that's a flaw in WebServicesCore or WSMakeStubs, but I don't really know). That works pretty well. Then I figured out how to get an NSDictionary sent as the right type to match my server beans by using kWSRecordType. When the server function being called returns a complex data type as a serialized bean, WebServicesCore correctly makes it available as an NSDictionary as well. The problem is when the server returns an array of these complex data types, the WebServicesCore gives me an NSArray, but it doesn't find the array items. I've captured the packets so I know they're there, and I've stepped through the code made by WSMakeStubs and it doesn't seem to get a parse error or any other fault, it just ignores the items in the array.
With getting the .NET client going so easily, I don't think there should be any server configuration thing to change with Axis, but I'd be open to any advice.
Thanks, Ben Levy
