Lists and arrays as web method parameters

[Sagi Mann <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I'm attempting to pass either a java ArrayList or some simple array as a web
method param. I've created a test web service with the following 2 methods:

    public String testListStringArg(List<String> list) {
        return "List " + list.toString();
    }

    public String testStringArrayArg(String[] array) {
        return "Array " + Arrays.asList(array).toString();
    }

I deploy the service on the axis2 framework, and look at the WSDL. The List
appears as anyType, and the array appears as list. Is this expected???
Example:

<xs:element name="testListStringArg">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="list" nillable="true"
type="xs:anyType" /> 
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="testStringArrayArg">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="array"
nillable="true" type="xs:string" /> 
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>


On the client side, I'm using wsimport (not wsdl2java, because I don't have
axis2 on the client side), to generate the classes. For the testListString
method, I get an Object parameter, and for the testStringArray method I get
a List<String> parameter (I omitted the @WebParam for clarity):

    public String testListStringArg(
        Object list);

    public String testStringArrayArg(
        List<String> array);


This behavior is not the same when I generate a WSDL for a JAXWS web
service, where List remains List and array remains array...

Is this a bug or by design?
thanks.
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