Expose ADF Business Components as Web Service

Hi,
In order to expose ADF BC as Web Services, and return a set a rows from a table, I have followed the tutorial on this page :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/webservices/htdocs/series/pattern/
However, the set of rows returned are un-typed XML elements, because the method is :
public Element getEmp(int empNo)
getEmpView1().setWhereClause("empno = ?");
getEmpView1().setWhereClauseParam(0, new Number(empNo));
return (Element)getEmpView1().writeXML(1,Row.XML_OPT_ALL_ROWS);
As a consequence, in the WSDL the response port is returning a complex type with an "<any />" element. Instead, I would like the response complex type to be an Employee type.
How can I get the AppModule method to be something like :
public Employee getEmp(int empNo)
< what is here ? >
Can I generate the Employee class automatically with ADF BC and serialize it to expose the method as a Web Service ?
Thanks.

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