Re: Potential bugs in Axis 1.2 alpha (java): java.lang.String mapping

["BLIS Webmaster (Patrick Houbaux)" <we...@blis-project.org>]

Hi all,

Anybody has any thoughts/ideas about that problem?

Regards,
Patrick.

BLIS Webmaster (Patrick Houbaux) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I made a small experience that could lead to some potential bugs in Axis 
> 1.2 alpha.
> I will try to explain it clearly ;)
> 
> 1- I used Axis 1.2 alpha to expose my webservice (server side)
> 
> 2- On the client side (using Axis 1.1), I noticed that I could not 
> generate the client stub anymore for my webservice, the message was:
> 
> ======================
> generate_stub_MyServide.RPC:
> WSDL2Java http://localhost:8080/axis/services/MyServide.RPC?wsdl
> Parsing XML file:  http://localhost:8080/axis/services/MyServide.RPC?wsdl
> java.io.IOException: Type 
> {http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding}string is referenced but not 
> defined.
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 2 seconds ======================
> 
> 3- Then I started to wonder why, so I tried to use Axis 1.2 alpha in my 
> client as well and suddently the client stub generation was working.
> 
> 4- Then I analysed the difference between the WSDL generated with Axis 
> 1.2 alpha and Axis 1.1 and I noticed a difference in the mapping of the 
> "java.lang.String" type.
> 
> For instance:
> ============ portion of the WSDL generated with AXIS 1.1 ============
> <complexType name="MyFault">
>    <sequence>
>      <element name="info" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
>      <element name="message" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
>    </sequence>
> </complexType>
> =====================================================================
> 
> ============ portion of the WSDL generated with AXIS 1.2 alpha ============
> <complexType name="MyFault">
>    <sequence>
>      <element name="info" nillable="true" type="tns2:string"/>
>      <element name="message" nillable="true" type="tns2:string"/>
>    </sequence>
> </complexType>
> =====================================================================
> 
> So the questions are : a) Why doesn't Axis 1.2 alpha (java2wsdl) map the 
> type "java.lang.String" to "xsd:string" anymore like it used to be in 
> Axis 1.1?
> Is this a bug?
> 
> b) Why does Axis 1.2 alpha (wsdl2java) understand "tns2:string" and map 
> it correctly to "java.lang.String" during the client stub generation?
> Is this a second bug?
> 
> c) Am I doing something wrong somewhere?
> 
> Cheers,
> Patrick.