Clientgen producing wrong package for artifacts when type is JAXWS

Question

Please we need help on this one really bad. We are using wls 10.3.2 on window 7/2008 r2 64bit edition.
I'm tyring to upgrade to 10.3.2 and use JAXWS instead of JAXRPC for our web services. First the migration from 10.3.0 to 10.3.2 using JAXRPC web services are good. Then tried generating server side JAXWS web services with jwsc, that went fine also. But when I tried using clientgen with type="JAXWS" webservices to generate the client artifacts to be use by our standalone java swing client the packages of our javabeans (use as parameters and return value and just POJO) are all wrong and also those javabeans are duplicated if the javabeans are used in several web services methods that are in the different package. Let me give you an example so you can see. For ex. we have several javabeans we use as parameters and return values for our web services methods/call (the package is shown in the full name of the javabeans). (1) com.starcomsoft.pp.address.Address; (2) com.starcomsoft.pp.account.Account; (3) com.starcomsoft.pp.customer.Customer; (4) com.starcomsoft.pp.order.Order & com.starcomsoft.order.OrderItem. We have 2 EJB stateless session bean as webservices and they are com.starcomsoft.pp.customer.jws.CustomerWSImpl and com.starcomsoft.pp.order.jws.OrderWSImpl. The Customer bean has an address as one of it's field and an Account has a Customer as one it's field also. An Order bean has a Shipping/Billing address field and a Customer field and a Collection of OrderItems in it.
Below is the CustomerWSimpl class..
@SOAPBinding(style=SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT, use=SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
parameterStyle=SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)
@Stateless(mappedName = "CustomerBeanWS")
@WebService(name = "CustomerWS",
               serviceName = "CustomerWSService")
public class CustomerWSImpl {
@WebMethod
public Customer findCustomer(int id) { return customer;}
@WebMethod
public List<Customer> findCustomers(List<Integer> ids) { return List<Customer> customers;}
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT,
          use = SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
          parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)
@Stateless(mappedName = "OrderBeanWS")
@WebService(name = "OrderWS",
               serviceName = "OrderWSService")
public class OrderWSImpl {
@WebMethod
public Order findOrder(int orderId) { return order;}
When I generate the client artifacts for CustomeWSImpl using "clientgen" with type="JAXWS", the Address, Account, Customer bean will all have the same package. For example in this case com.starcomsoft.pp.customer.jws ..., and for the OrderWSImpl - the Address, Customer, Order, OrderItem the packaging is "com.starcomsoft.pp.order.jws". Also the Address, Customer are duplicated. I've tried different combination value for all the attributes of "clientgen" but to no success. I'm I missing anything on my POJO or EJB stateless Bean's?
Below is an example of the ant task for "jwsc" and "clientgen".
<target name="gen.ws.server01" description="Target that builds the target Web Service">
<echo message="#### WSSTYLE JAXWS #######"/>
<jwsc srcdir="${src.server.ws.dir}" sourcepath="${src.server.dir}" destdir="${build.server.dir}"
classpath="${java.class.path};${app.inf.classes.dir}" fork="true" compiler="modern"
keepGenerated="true" deprecation="${deprecation}" keepTempFiles="true" listfiles="true"
debug="${debug}" memoryMaximumSize="${max.mem}" verbose="${verbose}">
<module contextPath="starcomsoft_ws" explode="true" name="starcomsoft_ws" generateWsdl="true">
<jws file="com/starcomsoft/pp/order/jws/OrderWSImpl.java" type="JAXWS" generateWsdl="true"/>
<jws file="com/starcomsoft/pp/customer/jws/CustomerWSImpl.java" type="JAXWS" generateWsdl="true"/>
</module>
</jwsc>
     </target>
<target name="gen.client1" depends="init, clean.gen.ws.server">
<clientgen
     type=JAXWS"
wsdl="${build.server.ws.dir}/META-INF/CustomerWSService.wsdl"
destDir="${gen.server.dir}"/>
<clientgen
     type="JAXWS"
     wsdl="${build.server.ws.dir}/META-INF/OrderWSService.wsdl"
destDir="${gen.server.dir}"/>
     </target>
"OR this "
<target name="gen.client2" depends="clean.gen.ws.server, init">
<clientgen
     type="JAXWS"
wsdl="${build.server.ws.dir}/META-INF/CustomerWSService.wsdl"
destDir="${gen.server.dir}"
     packageName="${server.root.package.name}.customer.jws" />
<clientgen
     type="JAXWS"
     wsdl="${build.server.ws.dir}/META-INF/OrderWSService.wsdl"
destDir="${gen.server.dir}"
          packageName="${server.root.package.name}.order.jws" />
     </target>
Please any help or thoughts on this one is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Hi,
Please Don't Use weblogic.wsee.tools.anttasks.ClientGenTask If you are using ANT build to define your Client Gen Defination. May be at present you are using this ClientGen:
<taskdef name="clientgen" classname="weblogic.wsee.tools.anttasks.ClientGenTask" />
Please Use the ClientGenX Utility (This is WLS9.x Compatible Version of Clientgen NO side effects of using it) for utilizing this feature:
<font color=maroon><b>
<taskdef name="clientgenx" classname="weblogic.ant.taskdefs.webservices.clientgen.ClientGenTask" />
</b></font>
use the above clientgenx task with the attribute *"useServerTypes=true"*...Just give it a try...
DESCRIPTION Of <strong>useServerTypes</strong>:
Specifies where the clientgen task gets the implementation of any non-built-in Java data types used in a Web Service: either the task generates the Java code or the task gets it from the EAR file that contains the full implementation of the Web Service. Valid values are True (use the Java code in the EAR file) and False. Default value is False.For the list of non-built-in data types for which clientgen can generate data type components.
NOTE:. The ClientGenX utility attributes are similar to WLS8.1 Clientgen utility...But it will generate the Client Side artifacts to your Current version of WebLogic ...so no need to worry...Just you may need to change some of the Attributes of your current ClientGen which you are using.
Keep Posting :)
Thanks
Jay SenSharma
http://jaysensharma.wordpress.com/webservices/#comment-314 (Complex types in JAXWS)