Web Services with Complex Data Types in ADF 11g

Shay Shmeltzer's following blogpost can answer my questions but all the links there
http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2009/09/web_services_with_complex_data.html
Can you please point us to the correct links for the following documents?
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/agile/pdf/adf11g-agile.pdf
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/tips/fnimphius/wsdccomplexinputtype/index.html

Thanks. We are using a Java Proxy to consume the web service as we need to use JAX-WS handlers. We created data control from the service stub that was created by the proxy. Our issue is with the response XML which comes as a complex type. Also, the data control is understanding the complex type and is creating the structure right. The problem is when we drag that control on a JSF page. No data is displayed. We think that we are not traversing the complex object properly which is creating the issue.
I understand that you answer related to the input is applicable to output as well. We can change the structure by flattening it but we thought that in 11G there is some new features where we can use the complex types out of the box without any change. Is that true? Also, any luck in finding the documents (broken links) on your blog page?

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