Configuring beanMapping with JBossWS

[andrewgriffiths]

Is there any way to include beanMapping tags in the WSDD which
jboss deploys to Axis?

I'm looking to deploy a web service in Jboss4 which uses
JAXRPC and returns a custom type.

In order that Axis be able to serialize the type I'd like to configure a
beanMapping for the type in the WSDD but can't find any way to
include one in the wsdd that jboss generates.

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<beanMapping qname="ns2:ReturnType"
xmlns:ns2="http://xxx.xxx.xxx"
languageSpecificType="java:au.com.xxx.Result"/>
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I'm aware that the contents of a file named ws4ee-deployment.xml
are somehow merged into the wsdd but the merging process seems
to ignore my beanMappings!

Any help much appreciated!

[andrewgriffiths]

For anyone interested an easy workaround was
to remove the jboss-ws4ee module and install/configure Apache
Axis as a standard web application instead.

In my case this easily allowed me to deploy the web services
by manually writing the deployment wsdd.

[thomas.diesler]

is a specialized form of
which can be specified in ws4ee-deployment.xml in the rare case where the standard jaxrpc-mapping.xml is not sufficient.

Replacing axis-ws4ee.jar by a the Apache axis distribution you will loose all WS4EE functionality and BasicProfile-1.0 compliance.

[thomas.diesler]

beanMapping is a specialized form of typeMapping ...

[andrewgriffiths]

Is there any example showing how BeanMapping would be specified?

The following seems to be ignored!

---- BEGIN ws4ee-deployment.xml ---
<deployment
 xmlns='http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/'
 xmlns:java='http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java'
 xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
 xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance'
 xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>

<service name='tnd.ear/tnd_exec.war#ActiveEventExecutor' style='rpc' use='encoded' provider='Handler'>

<beanMapping qname="ns2:DSLTestResults" xmlns:ns2="http://myco.com"
 languageSpecificType="java:myco.com.Results"/>

</service>
</deployment>


---- END ws4ee-deployment.xml ---

[thomas.diesler]

The mapping meta information should primarily specified by jaxrpc-mapping.xml which can be generated with wscompile. Only in rare circumstances ws4ee-deployment.xml is needed at all.

The wiki tells you how to define a valid ws4ee-deployment.xml

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=WSTypeMapping

[kanno]

Looking at the axis docs, I came across this that might be of some help.

And I quote,

(The <beanMapping> tag is really just shorthand for a <typeMapping> tag with serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory", deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory", and encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/", but clearly it can save a lot of typing!)

But, as Thomas has posted in the past, I think the SOAP encoding is not WS-I Basic Profile compliant?

[thomas.diesler]

The org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory is not tied to rpc/encoded, it can be used with literal as well.