"java Web Service from WSDL" just hands me a SOAPElement, no java mappings

Question

Another beginner question. I've used jdev and built a WSDL starting from a somewhat complex xsd. I've used the wizard "Java Web Service From WSDL" taking defaults. It seems to correctly generate class files for all my xsd types. It produces a fancy looking java-wsdl-mapping.xml But the generated stub service implementation just gets handed a SOAPElement object. Why generate all that mapping stuff and then make me parse the incoming data myself with SOAPElement methods? How am I supposed to make use of the mapping work that the wizard seems to have done for me?
Thanks,
Steve

Answer 1

Dear Tugdual,
Thanks for your intrest in my issue. I narrowed it down to the following type in my xsd
<complexType name="PersonInfoType">
<sequence >
<element name="FamilyName" type="string"/>
<element name="IndividualName" type="string"/>
<element name="SpouseName" type="string"/>
<element name="BirthDate" type="dateTime"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
This works fine - the "WebSerice From WSDL" wizard "knows" how to generate a class for PersonInfoType (with geters and seters) as well as useful stub implementation:
public class PersonInfoImpl {
public PersonInfoType processPersonInfo(String entityCode) {
return null;
However, if I make my type multiple occuring (to represnt e.g. rows from a db)
<complexType name="PersonInfoType">
<sequence maxOccurs="unbounded" >
<element name="FamilyName" type="string"/>
<element name="IndividualName" type="string"/>
<element name="SpouseName" type="string"/>
<element name="BirthDate" type="dateTime"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
Now the Web Service generator runs, but just doesn't generate any PersonInfoType class at all. For a stub implementation it genertes the following:
public class PersonInfoImpl {
public SOAPElement processPersonInfo(String entityCode) {
return null;
Now I'm stuck with the container just expecting from me a Soap Object and I have to build all the pieces myself with no java mappings to my xsd at all. Not very useful.
Is there another xml structure I can use to represent data rows that is better supported by the wizard?
Thanks,
Steve