I am trying to return a Hashtable object to my Axis generated client but get a org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad types (class java.util.HashMap -> class java.util.Hashtable) org.apache.axis.message.RPCHandler.onStartChild(Unknown Source)
Glen stated in an earlier message last month: Well, the MapSerializer is responsible for writing out the <complexType> declaration, and it expects to be writing the "xml-soap:Map" type, since that's the interoperable name for the Map encoding which a bunch of SOAP toolkits support. This type is automatically mapped in Axis. --end So since it implements the Map interface I can return either: a: HashMap as a HashMap or: if I really want the Hashtable, return it as a Map. This works. Is this then the preferred way? But, if return type is truly a HashTable, then WSDL is generating <complexTypes> for the HashTable extending Dictionary. Seems correct but may need a special serializer 'or' the generted client code is assuming a cast which in this case is failing. Chris Peake
