Complex Types & Web Services

Question

Portal 7 allows you to create portlets from WSDL files. I have a web
service that has an interface which returns a org.w3c.dom.Document. The
portlet wizard won't generate code from this interface since it uses a
"complex type". Is there any way to allow this type of generation other
than hand coding all the wsdl_*.java files in the jar file?
kwc

Answer 1

JAXB can be used to solve your problem. Rather than trying return your own types directly use JAXB to explain your return types in a schema;
Example:
public class MyType {
int id=-1;
int noOfObjects=0;
String something;
@XmlElement(nillable = true) //Java annotation to return list
List<String> participant;
public Interaction() {
participant= new ArrayList<String>();
something=�hi�;
public List<String> get() { return participant; }
public void set(String newpart) {participant.add(newpart);}
public String getCrux() { return �OK�; }
public void setCrux(String something) { this. something = something; }
@XmlAttribute
public int getId() { return 0; }
public void setId(int id) {  }
@XmlAttribute
public int getNoOfObjects() { return noOfObjects; }
public void setNoOfObjects(int id) { this.noOfObjects =noOfObjects; }
@WebService()
public class MyService {
@WebMethod
public Results MyType (@WebParam(name = "id") String id) {
return new MyType();
When defining your own class make sure you have "get" and "set" methods for all types.(JAXB needs this)