Parameter names change when generating web service from WSDL

Question

Hi,
I have a problem with BEAs web services that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I have a
WSDL file, and from that I want to generate a web service implementation and a
web service
client. In the WSDL file, I have a message defined like this:
<message name="someRequest">
<part xmlns:partns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="partns:base64Binary"
name="data"/>
</message>
I generate the server using the server using the wsdl2service Ant task, I implement
the necessary classes, and I deploy it. When I access the deployed web service,
the parameter name has changed, from "data" to "bytes". If I access the WSDL file
of the deployed web service, it says:
<message name="someRequest">
<part xmlns:partns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="partns:base64Binary"
name="bytes"/>
</message>
This happens for all parameters, string parameters are renamed to "string", base64Binary
parameters are renamed to "bytes", etc...
This poses a problem to me, because if I generate a web service client from the
original WSDL file, it will not be able to talk to my web service. Is there any
way of forcing a web service generated from a WSDL file to keep the parameter
names of the original WSDL file?
Any help in this is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Petter

Answer 1

From a quick look of your WSDL, it seams that you are mixing document-literal-bare and document-literal-wrapped flavor of web services. WSA may be able to do a better job at working around this mixed flavors than JDeveloper.
If you have hand crafted this WSDL, I would recomend that you spend some time looking at the way WSDL are generated, with the java-first mode (or bottom-up), then author the WSDL you need for the final service.
Here are sample of bare-style :
<xsd:element name="getPupilAddressResponse" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="getPupilAddressRequest" type="xsd:int"/>
Wrapped will looks like that:
<xsd:element name="getSENLevelResponse">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1">
<xsd:element name="LevelDetails" type="tns:SENLevelRecord"/>
<xsd:element name="RecordCount" type="xsd:int">
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
Hope this helps,
Eric