Are WebServices in Flash Builder 4 broken?

Question

I have a JBoss server running that exposes a wsdl interface. One of the WebMethods are defined as follows:
public List<Stuff> getStuff( long stuffParameter ) { ... }
When I import the WSDL I get what I expect, a method getStuff and a parameter GetStuff that has an arg0 of type Number
I then have the following code in my project
private var proxy:StuffWS = new StuffWS(); // this is my webservice that serves Stuff
I do
var stuff:Stuff = new Stuff();
stuff.arg0 = 55;
var tok:AsyncToken = proxy.getStuff( stuff );
tok.addResponder( new mx.rpc.Responder(stuffResponseHandler,genericFaultHandler) );
I would expec this to call my web service with the parameter of 55, it does in Flex 3 (as far as I can remember). Instead my webservice is called with a parameter of 0.
Looking at the soap package that goes out, that is not strange, it reads (removed headers)
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
     <SOAP-ENV:Body>
          <tns:getStuff xmlns:tns="http://package.package/appname/stuffws"/>
     </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
In other words, my 55 is nowhere to be seen.

Answer 1

Attached is the Microsoft Dynamics CRM WSDL file, I have modified it slightly (commented out a few complex types) to make it pass the Apache wsdl2java tool. In Flex Builder 3 this generates what I would expect, a number of different types of value objects etc (for example an Account object). None of those are generated in Flash Builder 4. I would have expected to see Account.as, Contact.as and a whole host of other objects.
Also, most of the objects that are created are "half" created, and are thus useless. Example - to retrieve a set of business entities using this WebService, you would create a QueryBase, set it's EntityName to something useful and then populate a ColumnSet object with an array of columns you would like to have returned. The ColumnSet doesn't include any way to add this array however, since it is basically an "empty" object with no real parameters to set or get.
Either Flash 4 generates this in a really "smart" way, making me unable to understand it at all, or Flash 4 wsdl2actionscript is badly broken. Given the fact that no objects that are defined in the WSDL were created, I tend to favor the latter possibility.
I have included the WSDL as it is when edited by me, and as it was originally. There is no difference in the result.
I hope we are a little ways away from release, because this is going to require some work...    :-)