Document style websevices

Question

Hi
I need to create a Web service which will take in XML docs as its parameter and
that can be validated by schema. The WSDL of the web service should have a pointer
to the schema file for the message that the service is expecting and the Web sevice
framework should be able to do the schema validation - the method will look like
this:
public String processExternalData(String xmlData)
This xmlData will be schema validated and finally will come to the method as an
xml string. The problem is if I write an EJB based on that the wsdl definition
will be generating the parameter type as xsd:string which I dont want - I want
it to point to my schema for the xmlData.
There seems to be some discussion in this forum abt this - but there is no examples
of how to do it. Does anyone have any examples for this which I can refer to.
TIA
Anamitra

Answer 1

Hello,
One way is to use the xsd:any in the WSDL. That will map to a
yourMethod(javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement Document). Then you can do
validation while parsing a document as described in:
http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs81/xml/xml_apps.html#1081760
There is a CR (CR082116) requesting support for optional XML validation
of the
data sent to/from a webservice.
For an example, you should take a look at SOAPBuilders Round3 Compound1
that does an echoDocument (another way of passing the document). The
description is available from http://www.whitemesa.com/r3/plan.html and
our implementation is available from
http://webservice.bea.com/r3server.zip and you can see the test page for
these test from: http://webservice.bea.com:7001/index.html
HTHs,
Bruce
Anamitra wrote:
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Hi
I need to create a Web service which will take in XML docs as its parameter and
that can be validated by schema. The WSDL of the web service should have a pointer
to the schema file for the message that the service is expecting and the Web sevice
framework should be able to do the schema validation - the method will look like
this:
public String processExternalData(String xmlData)
This xmlData will be schema validated and finally will come to the method as an
xml string. The problem is if I write an EJB based on that the wsdl definition
will be generating the parameter type as xsd:string which I dont want - I want
it to point to my schema for the xmlData.
There seems to be some discussion in this forum abt this - but there is no examples
of how to do it. Does anyone have any examples for this which I can refer to.
TIA
Anamitra