Document Style/Schema questions

Question

We are using Weblogic 8.1 sp1 and eclipse
I have some general questions about Document style web services
If I create a simple web service like
public String getSomething(String xmlRequest)
          throws RemoteException, SomethingException
then I can use servicegen, style=documentwrapped and everything works fine.
The strings are actually XML documents. If I want to let my clients know about
the schema for these documents would you suggest modifying the wsdl or publishing
it elsewhere?
Assuming I decide to put the schema in the wsdl how would I do that? (I am not
using workshop)
How does Weblogic know to convert the SOAP body into a String object? Should my
interface be changed to use org.w3c.org.Document objects insead of Strings?
Switching to the Client and consuming a document web services
If I use clientgen on a wsdl that is document/literal style and has a full schema,
I get a bunch of java classes representing the Document. The port object returns
one of these objects (getSomethingResponse). Is there a way to have the port object
return a an org.w3c.org.Document object?
thanks for your help,
Brit

Answer 1

Hi Brit,
If your business logic works fine just using strings then there would
seem to be a little value in increaing the complexity of the message
exchange pattern. If your client needs to know more about message where
sharing the schema is desirable, then it is suggested as best practice
to import the schema into the WSDL. The WS-I BP [1] clarifies use of
the import mechanisms to keep them consistent and confined to their
respective domains.
For a org.w3c.org.Document, Manoj has an example here [1].
The WSDL defines when to convert the SOAP to strings, using for example:
xsd:element type="xsd:string"
Regards,
Bruce
[1]
http://manojc.com/?sample31
[2]
http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/Basic/2003-08/BasicProfile-1.0a.html#refinement34116312
Brit wrote:
>
We are using Weblogic 8.1 sp1 and eclipse
I have some general questions about Document style web services
If I create a simple web service like
public String getSomething(String xmlRequest)
throws RemoteException, SomethingException
then I can use servicegen, style=documentwrapped and everything works fine.
The strings are actually XML documents. If I want to let my clients know about
the schema for these documents would you suggest modifying the wsdl or publishing
it elsewhere?
Assuming I decide to put the schema in the wsdl how would I do that? (I am not
using workshop)
How does Weblogic know to convert the SOAP body into a String object? Should my
interface be changed to use org.w3c.org.Document objects insead of Strings?
Switching to the Client and consuming a document web services
If I use clientgen on a wsdl that is document/literal style and has a full schema,
I get a bunch of java classes representing the Document. The port object returns
one of these objects (getSomethingResponse). Is there a way to have the port object
return a an org.w3c.org.Document object?
thanks for your help,
Brit