[xfire-user] how to expose constant instance fields via xFire...

[Matthew Kerle]

Hi all, xfire: 1.2.6 (using JSR181 annotation factory) java: 1.6.0_01 tomcat: 5.5.23 bit of a funny question, one of the methods exposed by my web service requires the client to pass in a "magic string" so that the service can route the request properly. the method asks for the bytes of an image by it's id, and returns either the full image, or a thumbnail version of the image depending on whether the client passed in the String "IMAGE" or "THUMBNAIL". Now, I don't want to write two methods to encapsulate this, I like the current method, the only thing is that I want to expose the magic strings to the client via the WSDL so that they don't need to magically 'know' the correct argument, they can just get it from their generated stubs. Does anyone know how to do this? I've tried just adding the fields to the interface, but they aren't picked up by the WSDL (I restarted tomcat after the edit, no change). Is there something else I should do? I'm using jsr181 so maybe I'm missing an annotation? @WebService public interface ImageService {     public static final String THUMBNAIL = "THUMBNAIL";     public static final String IMAGE = "IMAGE";     //web service methods... } thanks! -- Matthew Kerle IT Consultant Canberra, Australia Mobile: +61404 096 863 Email:     [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:      Matthew Kerle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email