Incompatibility of array with list

Question

I have three business classes. One is person which has attribute name of string type and a ArrayList of phone class. Phone class itself has one attribute of string type with name of "number". My third class is Patient which is inherited from Person class and has attribute id of string type. All these classes has setter and getter method except in Phone class which has setter and getter methods for array of Phone class because web services does not support collection in rpc literal mode. I have developed a service class which expose a method of insertPatient with parameter of Patient class. But there is an exception of ArrayIndexOutOf Bound Exception. Application server is JBoss and i m compiling my webservices with Netbeans. What can be problem please response me. I m giving structure of my classses
package com.catalisse;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
* @author Amer Sohail
public class Person implements Serializable
private String name = null;
private ArrayList phoneList = new ArrayList();
/** Creates a new instance of Person */
public Person()
public void setName(String name)
System.out.println("setting Name"+ name);
this.name = name;
public String getName()
return this.name;
public void setPhone(Phone[] phone)
System.out.println("setting the Phone number"+ phone.length);
if(phone.length > 0){
System.out.println("Another statement here::: sara khan::: "+ phone[phone.length-1]);
for (int i = 0; i < phone.length; i++)
if (phone[i] != null)
phoneList.add(phone);
else
System.out.println("value not found on index " + i);
//this.phArray = phone;
// this.phoneList = phone;
// public void setPhone(Phone phone)
// if (phone != null)
// phoneList.add(phone);
// else
// System.out.println("yaar i m null" );
public Phone[] getPhone()
Phone ph[] = new Phone[phoneList.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < phoneList.size();i++)
Phone phone = (Phone)phoneList.get(i);
if (phone != null)
ph[i] = (Phone)phoneList.get(i);
else
System.out.println("no value");
return ph;
package com.catalisse;
import java.io.*;
* @author Amer Sohail
public class Phone implements Serializable
private String number;
/** Creates a new instance of Phone */
public Phone()
public void setNumber(String number)
this.number = new String();
System.out.println("from client number = "+ number);
this.number = number;
System.out.println("on server number = "+ this.number);
public String getNumber()
return this.number;
package com.catalisse;
import java.io.*;
* @author Amer Sohail
public class Patient extends Person implements Serializable
private String id = null;
/** Creates a new instance of Patient */
public Patient()
public void setID(String id)
this.id = id;
public String getID()
return this.id;
package com.catalisse;
* This is the service endpoint interface for the PatientWSweb service.
* Created Sep 20, 2005 8:18:49 PM
* @author Amer Sohail
public interface PatientWSSEI extends java.rmi.Remote
* Web service operation
public com.catalisse.Patient getPatient() throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
* Web service operation
public String insertPatient(com.catalisse.Patient patient) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
public class PatientWSImpl implements PatientWSSEI
// Enter web service operations here. (Popup menu: Web Service->Add Operation)
* Web service operation
public com.catalisse.Patient getPatient()
Patient p = new Patient();
p.setID("1");
p.setName("amer");
Phone ph[] = new Phone[2];
Phone phone1 = new Phone();
phone1.setNumber("12345");
ph[0] = phone1;
phone1 = new Phone();
phone1.setNumber("4555");
ph[1] = phone1;
p.setPhone(ph);
return p;
* Web service operation
public String insertPatient(com.catalisse.Patient patient)
System.out.println("Name = " + patient.getName());
System.out.println("ID = " + patient.getID());
Phone[] ph = patient.getPhone();
System.out.println("I am called");
if (ph != null && ph.length != 0)
System.out.println("phone = " + ph[0].getNumber());
System.out.println("ID = " + ph[1].getNumber());
return "inserted";
I am waiting for reply

Answer 1

Isn't ph supposed to be a phone array and you are assigning it to a single Phone in this line?
public Phone[] getPhone()
Phone ph[] = new Phone[phoneList.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < phoneList.size();i++)
Phone phone = (Phone)phoneList.get(i);
if (phone != null)
ph = (Phone)phoneList.get(i);
else
System.out.println("no value");
return ph;
}