Web Service Tester not sending parameter to Session bean?

Question

Hi,
I've implemented an EJB3 entity bean, a stateless session bean and used the @WebService annotation to make it accessible.
It deployed fine, and everything seems to work. I use the web service tester to test the methods.
The findDepartments() method works fine (it doesn't take any input).
However, this method does not work:
     * Find a specific department
    public Department findDepartment(BigDecimal pk)
        System.out.println("Incoming pk="+pk);
        return em.find(Department.class, pk);
    }Incoming pk is always null. Is there a bug in the WebService tester or something?

Answer 1

Hmm, ok so this is a bug? As of now the tester page does not support value objects as parameters / return types. Agreed that the error message should be more useful :(
I do get the same error if I use another soap client
though, so I find it kind of strange.This is different though. In this case, is the request received at the service side at all ? Which version of app server are you using ? What kind of service is this ? JAXRPC or JAXWS ?