AXIS not serializing body of response

[Ian Kettle]

I've generated AXIS 1.4 bindings using the Maven plug in so I can re-implement 
a service.  We currently have the same service running with AXIS 1.4 on an old 
system that is being replaced.  We're staying with AXIS 1.4 as AXIS 2 has 
issues with Weblogic and I thought it would be faster to reimplement on a 
known platform.  

All deploys fine but when I return from the service with a valid object I get 
the following.
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
   <soapenv:Body/>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I have returned a object from my service implementation and if I step through 
the Axis code I can see that it has my expected value.    At the following 
piece of code in the RPCProvider class I can see the objRes is the object I 
expect.
            objRes = invokeMethod(msgContext,
                                  operation.getMethod(),
                                  obj, argValues);

At no stage does it attempt to serialize the objRes to XML.  Anyone have any 
ideas as to why this would be happening.

Summarized server-config.wsdd below.  Using spring ServletEndpointSupport if 
this makes any difference.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/";
        xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java";>
        <globalConfiguration>
                <parameter name="attachments.Directory"
                        value="/j2ee/tmp/attachments" />
                <parameter name="attachments.implementation"
                        value="org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentsImpl" />
                <parameter name="sendXsiTypes" value="true" />
                <parameter name="sendMultiRefs" value="false" />
                <parameter name="sendXMLDeclaration" value="true" />
                <parameter name="axis.sendMinimizedElements" value="true" />
        </globalConfiguration>
        
        <service name="XrPort" provider="java:RPC" style="document" 
use="literal">
                
                <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*" />
                <parameter name="typeMappingVersion" value="1.2" />
                <parameter name="wsdlPortType" value="XrPortType" />
                <parameter name="className"
                        value="my.endpoint.class" />
                <parameter name="wsdlServicePort" value="XrPort" />
                <parameter name="schemaQualified" value="uri:ns" />
                <parameter name="wsdlTargetNamespace" value="nsdefinitions" />
                <parameter name="wsdlServiceElement" value="XrService" />
                
      <operation name="send" qname="Send" returnQName="retNS:snapshotMessage" 
xmlns:retNS="uri:ns" returnType="rtns:snapshotComplexType" xmlns:rtns="uri:ns" 
soapAction="" >
        <parameter qname="pns:snapshotMessage" xmlns:pns="uri:ns" 
type="tns:snapshotComplexType" xmlns:tns="uri:ns"/>
      </operation>
                <wsdlFile>
         /xrservice.wsdl
    </wsdlFile>
      //// TypeMappings
        </service>
        <transport name="http">
                <requestFlow>
                        <handler 
type="java:org.apache.axis.handlers.http.URLMapper" 
name="URLMapper"/>
                        <handler
                                
type="java:org.apache.axis.handlers.http.HTTPAuthHandler" />
                </requestFlow>
        </transport>
        <transport name="local">
                <responseFlow>
                        <handler type="LocalResponder" />
                </responseFlow>
        </transport>
</deployment>



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Ian Kettle - Software Engineer 
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