Type casting in JAX-RPC

Question

Hello
I was trying to do a JAX-RPC application, and I had some problems with type casting. My application worked fine with primitive types, vectors of primitive types, and beans with primitive type properties. But it didn't work with vectors of beans, or ArrayList's of beans... It couldn't deserialize the result on client side... Can anyone help?
The Java Web Services Tutorial says that JAX-RPC supports beans and vectors, but I had the impression that this is not a "recursive" support, like "beans with vectors" or "vectors of beans"... Does it make sense?
By the way, I was using a DII client...
Thanks,
Alexandre Murakami

Answer 1

Hello!
Thanks for the reply! I can't put the code of my application here (because it's quite big and it's from work)... But I followed the dii client example from the Web Services Tutorial...
I'm trying to do a kind of a general client... The parameters are the URL of the service, the name of the operation, a list of parameters and the return type class.. And it takes the rest of the service information from the WSDL file... About the return type, I take the QName of the return type from the WSDL:
<message>
<part name="result" type="...">...
then I call the call.setReturnType(QName, Class) method. The return type was an array of a very simple bean, something like:
class Person {
String name;
int age;
public String getName() {...}
public void setName(...) {...}
public int getAge() {...}
public void setAge(...) {...}
I don't know if the information I put here is enough... but anyway, thanks for the reply!
Alexandre Murakami