Web Service Support

Hi,
I was wondering if the web service wsdl import and class generation supports all the different types of encodings (RPC, Document Literal,etc..).
I am getting a null being returned...I was wondering if there is a way to get the actual soap response or to output it in some way...to see whats going wrong.
Thanks,
Ashish

Hi,
I was wondering if the web service wsdl import and
class generation supports all the different types of
encodings (RPC, Document Literal,etc..).Please see the JAX-RPC spec at http://java.sun.com/xml/downloads/jaxrpc.html for a complete explanation of the types of encodings supported.
>
I am getting a null being returned...I was wondering
if there is a way to get the actual soap response or
to output it in some way...to see whats going wrong.Have you checked the deployment server log? From the server navigator, on the localhost:4848 node, choose "View Server Log" from the context menu.
- David

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