Web Service portlet in PDK (Urgent!!!)

Question

I have a .NET web service I would like to consume in the portal and present as a portlet. For several reason I do not want to use OMNI (not the least of the reasons is after 3 weeks of working with oracle tech support on a corresponding I still can’t get OMNI and WebClipping running)
Either way, the WS consumption system with xsl/xslt controlled presentation as seen in Web Services sample provide in the PDK suits my needs a lot better.
Now as I mentioned I have a .NET service running and well tested.
I can indeed consume it and even apply XSL, what I can’t do however is to pass parameters to web service.
I define portlet with something like:
<portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultPortletDefinition">
          <id>25</id>
          <name>Listings</name>
          <title>Listings Web Service Portlet</title>
          <shortTitle>Phone Listings</shortTitle>
          <description>Web Service demonstration portlet.</description>
          <timeout>100</timeout>
          <timeoutMessage>portlet timed out</timeoutMessage>
          <acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
          <renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
          <contentType>text/html</contentType>
          <charSet>UTF-8</charSet>
          <showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.webservice.DocWebServiceRenderer">
               <contentType>text/html</contentType>
               <logging>true</logging>
               <endpointURL>http://myserver.com/webservices/listings.asmx</endpointURL>
               <soapAction>http://myserver.com/webservices/getPerson</soapAction>
               <literal class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.webservice.LiteralXML"
               handler="oracle.portal.provider.v2.webservice.LiteralXML$Handler">
               <element name="getPerson">
                    <attribute name="xmlns">http://myserver.com/webservices/</attribute>
                    <element name="inputStr"
                    bind="urlParams/lname"
                    default="Yu"
                    prompt="Please enter last name"/>
               </element>
               </literal>
               <escapeOutput>false</escapeOutput>
          <responseXSL>listings.xsl</responseXSL>
          </showPage>
          </renderer>
     </portlet>
This actually seem to work and in the …_literal.xml log file I can see something like that:
<getPerson xmlns="http://myserver.com/webservices/">
<inputStr xmlns="http://myserver.com/webservices/">Yukh</inputStr >
</getPerson >
(Yukh – is what I passed as urlParam)
The problem however is that service that should run a query with “WHERE lname LIKE ‘<inputStr>%’” returns the whole datatable rather then only those records that starts with Yukh in the lname column. In short request parameter is ignored by web service (or not passed)
The only difference between my portlet and samples (most of which don’t work as advertised by the way) is that oracle …_literal.xml log file doesn’t have xmlns in the sub elements
<WhoIs xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<DomainName>oracle.com</DomainName>
</WhoIs>
(I have no idea why mine does (I define no attributes for inputStr element)
If you have any idea what I might be missing or doing wrong please let me know!!! I’ll greatly appreciate.

Answer 1

We tried using Omniportlet. It expects the resultset in ROWSET/ROW format. Our .Net Webservice doesn't return in rowset/row. We tried transforming using XSL, but even then it didn't work.
Thanks