After testing apache soap for a while, I decided to swithch to GLUE(http://www.themindelectric.com/products/glue/glue.html). It's very easy to use, almost fool proof. WSDL file is automatically generated when you publish a soap service. It also has a tool called wsdl2java, which generates the interface needed to get access to the soap service on another machine.
Good luck, Sandy > -----Original Message----- > From: Raghavan Srinivasan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: January 11, 2002 10:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WSDL , Apache Soap question > > > I have a Apache Web service one of whose methods takes in > java.util.Hashtable as a parameter . I understand that the Apache > Toolkit supports Hashtable encoding . But i want to write a WSDL > interface to this service that toolkits from other languages could use > to generate stubs . > > I could'nt find the right schema element to represent a structure > similar to Map / Hashtable . > > I used the Idoox java2wsdl utility to see what the utility generates and > it came up with ns0:Hashtable > where ns0 = http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap . > > This is obviously Apache specific and I dont know how compilers from > other languages will interpret it . > > Has anyone else faced a similar issue ? > > Thanks - > Raghavan > >