wsdl2java and .NET WSDL file

[Michael Engelhart <me...@mac.com>]

Hi -

First off I'm new to WebServices although I've successfully built an 
application that uses a WS from a WSDL document and wsdl2java included 
in Axis.

That said, I am working with a vendor that has multiple services 
available through Web Services.   They have documentation on using Axis 
so I went and ran wsdl2java for a single service to see what the 
classes looked like.   Lo and behold this single service generated over 
300 classes!   Is it just me or is that out of control?  The developers 
said that in .NET it just generates a single file but in Java it 
generates this many classes.
I just can't wrap my head around how each call to this service can 
generate 300 objects per request or maybe I'm misunderstanding 
something.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

Re: wsdl2java and .NET WSDL file

[James Black <jb...@ieee.org>]

Michael Engelhart wrote:

> Hi -
>
> First off I'm new to WebServices although I've successfully built an 
> application that uses a WS from a WSDL document and wsdl2java included 
> in Axis.
>
> That said, I am working with a vendor that has multiple services 
> available through Web Services.   They have documentation on using 
> Axis so I went and ran wsdl2java for a single service to see what the 
> classes looked like.   Lo and behold this single service generated 
> over 300 classes!   Is it just me or is that out of control?  The 
> developers said that in .NET it just generates a single file but in 
> Java it generates this many classes.
> I just can't wrap my head around how each call to this service can 
> generate 300 objects per request or maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

  If they are passing many objects back and forth to the webservice, 
this will create a large number of classes.  Most of these should just 
be simple beans with getters and setters, so it shouldn't require you to 
understand them any more than knowing which getter/setter to call.

  Each public class in java is it's own file, that is not the case in .net.

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