Non-Bean Object Serialization

[Jason McCormick <jm...@lexi.com>]

  Greetings everyone.  I'm trying to use AXIS to extend a client-server 
app we have to start using SOAP as the transport and I'm running into a 
problem creating the WSDL.  We have a quantity of code that are not 
beans for one reason or another and I'm trying to figure out how to 
send these over SOAP (note: I can't edit these objects to turn them 
into beans). The objects are all serializable.

  I've written a wrapper class around the current interfaces and I'm 
attempting to run Java2WSDL to create the WSDL and I'm getting errors 
like the following:

- The class com.lexi.publish.datamgr.SectionType does not contain a 
default constructor, which is a requirement for a bean class.  The 
class cannot be converted into an xml schema type.  An xml schema 
anyType will be used to define this class in the wsdl file.

Then whenever I try to use WSDL2Java to create the skeleton code and to 
make the WSDDs I get errors stating that {urn:Server}SectionType is 
referenced but not defined.  

  I guess I'm not seeing how you deal with non-bean objects you're 
trying to serialize.  Do I need to not use Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java?  
How else can you generate the wsdl and wsdd or do you write them by 
hand?

  I see from the documentation there are a number of other seralizers 
native to AXIS and there's a statement in the docs about writing your 
own seralizer and registering it in AXIS.  However I'm unclear from the 
documentation for AXIS how you go about defining how objects that don't 
fit into the Bean[De]Serializer factory/class types can be serialized 
successfully in AXIS and AXIS's components be made aware of this, 
especially via Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java.

Thanks in advance for the thoughts and time.  If I need to clarify 
something, please let me know.  I've been beating my head against this 
for several days

Thanks
-- Jason McCormick