Apex, Web Services, and complex data types?

Hi all,
I was wondering if somebody could explain to me what sort of support apex has for using web services with complex data types, and how data returned like this could be interpreted and stored in the database.
Any help would be aprreciated.
Thankyou in advance

Hi can anyone help me with this?

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Web Services with Complex Data Types in ADF 11g

Shay Shmeltzer's following blogpost can answer my questions but all the links there
http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2009/09/web_services_with_complex_data.html
Can you please point us to the correct links for the following documents?
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/agile/pdf/adf11g-agile.pdf
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/tips/fnimphius/wsdccomplexinputtype/index.html

Thanks. We are using a Java Proxy to consume the web service as we need to use JAX-WS handlers. We created data control from the service stub that was created by the proxy. Our issue is with the response XML which comes as a complex type. Also, the data control is understanding the complex type and is creating the structure right. The problem is when we drag that control on a JSF page. No data is displayed. We think that we are not traversing the complex object properly which is creating the issue.
I understand that you answer related to the input is applicable to output as well. We can change the structure by flattening it but we thought that in 11G there is some new features where we can use the complex types out of the box without any change. Is that true? Also, any luck in finding the documents (broken links) on your blog page?

Generating a Web Service and Oracle DATE type

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package oracle;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.NamedQueries;
import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
@Entity
@NamedQueries({
@NamedQuery(name = "Lan.findAll", query = "select o from Lan o"),
@NamedQuery(name = "Lan.FindByNr", query = "select o from Lan o where o.lanNr = :p_lanNr")
public class Lan implements Serializable {
@Column(name="ATERLAMNAD_DATUM")
private Timestamp aterlamnadDatum;
@Column(nullable = false)
private Long demandcount;
private Timestamp demanddate;
@Column(name="EXEMPLAR_NR", nullable = false)
private Long exemplarNr;
@Column(nullable = false)
private String isbn;
@Id
@Column(name="LAN_NR", nullable = false)
private Long lanNr;
@Column(nullable = false)
private Long remindercount;
private Timestamp reminderdate;
@Column(name="TILLBAKA_DATUM")
private Timestamp tillbakaDatum;
@Column(name="UTLANAD_DATUM")
private Timestamp utlanadDatum;
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "PERSON_NR")
private Lantagare lantagare;

Hi All,
When i'm developing EJB Webservice i am getting following error .. i think it doesn't support java.sql.Date; and java.sql.timestamp; types
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java.sql.Timestamp does not have a no-arg default constructor.
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>
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I have an entity bean that has a collection (list<Address>) of sub-entities. I have then created a session bean to retrieve the Business and populate it's children.
I then expose this as a web service and although it works and I get appropriate XML out, the WSDL of the deployed service is not as I would like.
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Chris

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/f7/af60f2e04d0848888675a800623a81/frameset.htm
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If I CFDUMP the variable it returns just "1", no XML tags, nothing at all around the data - according to the web service providers they say that they are supplying the Token part as long as the first variable is "1" (a logical true if the authentication passed). If it is "0" then no Token is returned, that is why it's optional.
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I see this as an error in the docs as it's calling a non-existant entity in the WSDL, which should cause a run-time error.

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[email protected] is my id and one more thing u by looking at the wsdl file u can know what al the parameters we have to give to the webservice so try it out also.
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