Calling AXIS Web Service from a Weblogic Client

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to generate a weblogic Web Service cliente (jar) to call an AXIS Web Service. I am using the weblogic ant task <b>clientgen</b> to generate the stubs/classes from WSDL of the AXIS Web Service.
It creates the the jar but when I try to call the web service it gives the following error:
<pre>
java.rmi.RemoteException: SOAP Fault:javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: org.xml.sax.SAXException: No deserializer defined for array type {http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap}MapItem; nested exception is:
     javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: org.xml.sax.SAXException: No deserializer defined for array type {http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap}MapItem
javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: org.xml.sax.SAXException: No deserializer defined for array type {http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap}MapItem
     at weblogic.webservice.core.DefaultOperation.invoke(DefaultOperation.java:498)
     at weblogic.webservice.core.DefaultOperation.invoke(DefaultOperation.java:360)
     at weblogic.webservice.core.rpc.StubImpl._invoke(StubImpl.java:244)
     at sample.ProxyService_Stub.genericMethod(Unknown Source)
     at com.orange.few.webservice.test.TestSuiteFijo.testFijo(TestSuiteFijo.java:41)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
     at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:478)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:344)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
</pre>
It says that it can´t find the deserializer for the defined array type {http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap}MapItem;
But in the jar it creates the following clasese:
<pre>
org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItem
org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItemCodec
org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItemSequenceCodec
org.apache.xml.xml.soap.holders.MapHolder
org.apache.xml.xml.soap.holders.MapItemHolder
</pre>
and in the mapping file I see the folowing entry:
<pre>
<type-mapping-entry deserializer="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapSequenceCodec" class-name="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItem[]" xmlns:p3="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" type="p3:Map" serializer="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapSequenceCodec">
</type-mapping-entry>
<type-mapping-entry deserializer="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItemCodec" class-name="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItem" xmlns:p4="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" type="p4:MapItem" serializer="org.apache.xml.xml.soap.MapItemCodec">
</type-mapping-entry>
</pre>
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Gerardo
Enviornment:
Weblogic
========
Weblogic Server: 7.0 SP 4
OS: Sun Solaris 8
JDK: 1.3
AXIS
========
AXIS Version: 1.4
Container: Tomcat
OS: Sun Solaris 8
JDK: 1.4

Answer 1

Hi Sebastien,
The wsclient sample loads only a minimal set of SOAP and related jar files to the database required to get the sample working. The SSL related classes may not get resolved correctly, but as the sample does not use these,
you should still be able to proceed with the setup.
Can you continue with the configuration steps and let me know if you still face any problems in bringing up the application ?
HTH
Sujatha.
OTN Group.