Newbie Axis mapping problem

[Ralph Scheuer <ra...@gmx.net>]

Hello everybody,

I am just getting started with axis and I have run into a strange 
issue. In the BizTalk server's WSDL there is an imported schema for a 
"priceEnv" entity. In the "GetPrice" method definition, I get the 
following declaration:

<s:element name="GetPriceResponse">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="GetPriceResult">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:any namespace="http://www.tempuri.org/pricesEnv.xsd"/>
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>

After generating the classes with WSDL2Java, I find that my *SOAP class 
contains a method getPrice with the appropriate parameters but returns 
a GetPriceResult object that does not contain the usual accessor 
methods, just a get_any method that returns a MessageElement array and 
all the other standard methods. However, the PriceEnv class is 
generated twice (once for the org.tempuri.www namespace from where the 
schema is imported and once for the namespace where the WSDL comes 
from).

When querying the webservice by hand, I find that the GetPrice method 
returns a priceEnv entity with a schema and a diffgram containing the 
real data. How do I get the appropriate priceEnv object from the query 
so that I have a real object mapping without dealing with all the XML 
manually? I am thinking of a situation like the following:

In another test setup that I used previously with Axis, I had a service 
definition in the WSDL for Customer objects that looked like:

<s:element name="GetCustomerResponse">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="GetCustomerResult" 
type="tns:Customer"/>
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>

The customer object itself was defined inside the WSDL and Axis 
WSDL2Java generated perfect mappings for the Java equivalents, so that 
I could use myCustomer.getName() etc.

Is there a bug in the server implementation or am I doing something 
fundamentally wrong or ignoring the obvious?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ralph Scheuer