JBossWS Eclipse Plugin and WSDL Polymorphism

[kalvin]

Hello all,

I am trying out the JBossIDE 2.0.0.Beta2, especially the JBossWS Eclipse plugin. Does anyone know that it supports polymorphism for the parameter and the return type of the service endpoint interface? Perhaps I should break it down to:

Does JBossWS (jbossws-1.0.3.GA) support polymorphism on SEI?
Does JBossWS Eclipse Plugin support polymorphism on SEI?

Thanks,
Kalvin

[omatzura]

Hi Kalvin,

I'm not sure about the jbossws stack and the associated wstools (which are used by the eclipse plugin), but the underlying webservice logic in the plugin *should* support polymorphism as you describe.. ie you should be able to import a WSDL containing a portType with the same operation name taking different arguments, I'm unsure about return-type polymorphism only though..

if you can mail me your WSDL I can validate this for you.. ([e-mail])

kind regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

[kalvin]

Hi Ole,

Sorry for the confusion, but I didn't mean to expose overloaded Java methods in the service endpoint interface. In my case, I want to publish POJO webservice, which has a single Java method that takes abstract parameter and returns abstract return value as follow:

public WSAbstractReturnValue getValueBy(WSAbstractParameter paramter);

And, I have two subclasses for each of the abstract types:

public class WSReturnImplOne extends WSAbstractReturnValue {}
public class WSReturnImplTwo extends WSAbstractReturnValue {}
public class WSParameterImplOne extends WSAbstractParameter {}
public class WSParameterImplTwo extends WSAbstractParameter {}

I want that the client may call the service method with a parameter of arbitrary subtype, and the service method may also return arbitrary subtype.

By simply using steps from the bottom-up example (http://www.soapui.org/jbossws/bottomup.html) for my POJO, first, I didn't find expected elements for the derived types in the generated WSDL file. Hence, I didn't get the corresponding client artifacts when following the next walkthrough example (http://www.soapui.org/jbossws/consume.html).

If I use the wstools directly, running the wstools command against a config file, is there a way to specify the subclasses in the configuration file? On top of that, is there a way to specify the subclasses through the plugin dialogs?

Thanks,
Kalvin

[omatzura]

Hi Kalvin,

ok.. sorry.. mistake was mine.. I'm not sure if wstools supports this currently, the coming JAX-WS 2.0 compatible JBossWS 2.0 uses JAXB for databinding which probably supports your scenario.. but I'm not sure on any of those claims ;-).. try reposting your question in the JBossWS forum to see what "the experts" say..

Obviously, if it is supported by wstools, we will add a UI for it as well..

regards!

/Ole

[kalvin]

Thanks Ole, I'll certainly repost this to the JBossWS forum... and I am looking forward to see this feature in the plugin UI.

Kalvin