Trying to get a simple webservice running using JBossWS but getting the following exception on the server side. I was testing out a Complex Type with an array.

org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeserializer encountered a child element, which
is NOT expected, in something it was trying to deserialize.

Current setup:

JBoss 4.0.3RC2 (we are targeting this release)
wscompile (wsdp 1.6)

I'm using Axis 1.2.1 for DII client.

wsdl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<definitions name="WsTestService" targetNamespace="http://wstest/"
 xmlns:tns="http://wstest/" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
 xmlns:ns2="http://wstest/types" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/">
 <types>
 <schema targetNamespace="http://wstest/types"
 xmlns:tns="http://wstest/types"
 xmlns:soap11-enc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <complexType name="MyMsg">
 <sequence>
 <element name="data" type="string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0"
 maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
 <element name="item1" type="string" nillable="true"/>
 <element name="item2" type="string" nillable="true"/>
 </sequence>
 </complexType>
 </schema>
 </types>
 <message name="WsTestEndpoint_pingMsg">
 <part name="MyMsg_1" type="ns2:MyMsg"/>
 </message>
 <message name="WsTestEndpoint_pingMsgResponse">
 <part name="result" type="ns2:MyMsg"/>
 </message>
 <portType name="WsTestEndpoint">
 <operation name="pingMsg" parameterOrder="MyMsg_1">
 <input message="tns:WsTestEndpoint_pingMsg"/>
 <output message="tns:WsTestEndpoint_pingMsgResponse"/>
 </operation>
 </portType>
 <binding name="WsTestEndpointBinding" type="tns:WsTestEndpoint">
 <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"
 style="rpc"/>
 <operation name="pingMsg">
 <soap:operation soapAction=""/>
 <input>
 <soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://wstest/"/>
 </input>
 <output>
 <soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://wstest/"/>
 </output>
 </operation>
 </binding>
 <service name="WsTestService">
 <port name="WsTestEndpointPort" binding="tns:WsTestEndpointBinding">
 <soap:address location="REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL"/>
 </port>
 </service>
</definitions>

mapping.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java-wsdl-mapping xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://www.ibm.com/webservices/xsd/j2ee_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd"
 version="1.1">
 <package-mapping>
 <package-type>wstest</package-type>
 <namespaceURI>http://wstest/types</namespaceURI>
 </package-mapping>
 <package-mapping>
 <package-type>wstest</package-type>
 <namespaceURI>http://wstest/</namespaceURI>
 </package-mapping>
 <java-xml-type-mapping>
 <java-type>wstest.MyMsg</java-type>
 <root-type-qname xmlns:typeNS="http://wstest/types">
 typeNS:MyMsg</root-type-qname>
 <qname-scope>complexType</qname-scope>
 <variable-mapping>
 <java-variable-name>data</java-variable-name>
 <xml-element-name>data</xml-element-name>
 </variable-mapping>
 <variable-mapping>
 <java-variable-name>item1</java-variable-name>
 <xml-element-name>item1</xml-element-name>
 </variable-mapping>
 <variable-mapping>
 <java-variable-name>item2</java-variable-name>
 <xml-element-name>item2</xml-element-name>
 </variable-mapping>
 </java-xml-type-mapping>
 <service-interface-mapping>
 <service-interface>wstest.WsTestService</service-interface>
 <wsdl-service-name xmlns:serviceNS="http://wstest/">
 serviceNS:WsTestService</wsdl-service-name>
 <port-mapping>
 <port-name>WsTestEndpointPort</port-name>
 <java-port-name>WsTestEndpointPort</java-port-name>
 </port-mapping>
 </service-interface-mapping>
 <service-endpoint-interface-mapping>
 <service-endpoint-interface>
 wstest.WsTestEndpoint</service-endpoint-interface>
 <wsdl-port-type xmlns:portTypeNS="http://wstest/">
 portTypeNS:WsTestEndpoint</wsdl-port-type>
 <wsdl-binding xmlns:bindingNS="http://wstest/">
 bindingNS:WsTestEndpointBinding</wsdl-binding>
 <service-endpoint-method-mapping>
 <java-method-name>pingMsg</java-method-name>
 <wsdl-operation>pingMsg</wsdl-operation>
 <method-param-parts-mapping>
 <param-position>0</param-position>
 <param-type>wstest.MyMsg</param-type>
 <wsdl-message-mapping>
 <wsdl-message xmlns:wsdlMsgNS="http://wstest/">
 wsdlMsgNS:WsTestEndpoint_pingMsg</wsdl-message>
 <wsdl-message-part-name>MyMsg_1</wsdl-message-part-name>
 <parameter-mode>IN</parameter-mode>
 </wsdl-message-mapping>
 </method-param-parts-mapping>
 <wsdl-return-value-mapping>
 <method-return-value>wstest.MyMsg</method-return-value>
 <wsdl-message xmlns:wsdlMsgNS="http://wstest/">
 wsdlMsgNS:WsTestEndpoint_pingMsgResponse</wsdl-message>
 <wsdl-message-part-name>result</wsdl-message-part-name>
 </wsdl-return-value-mapping>
 </service-endpoint-method-mapping>
 </service-endpoint-interface-mapping>
</java-wsdl-mapping>

webservices.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<webservices xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd"
 version="1.1">

 <webservice-description>
 <icon>
 </icon>

 <webservice-description-name>WsTestService</webservice-description-name>

 <wsdl-file>META-INF/wsdl/WsTestService.wsdl</wsdl-file>
 <jaxrpc-mapping-file>META-INF/wstest-mapping.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file>

 <port-component>

 <icon>
 </icon>

 <port-component-name>WsTestEndpoint</port-component-name>
 <wsdl-port>WsTestEndpointPort</wsdl-port>
 <service-endpoint-interface>
 wstest.WsTestEndpoint</service-endpoint-interface>
 <service-impl-bean>
 <ejb-link>WsTest</ejb-link>
 </service-impl-bean>
 </port-component>

 </webservice-description>

</webservices>

SessionBean enpoint.

public class WsTestBean implements SessionBean {

 public MyMsg pingMsg(MyMsg msg) {
 System.out.println(msg);
 return msg;
 }
}

Simple data object with String fields and String array.

public class MyMsg implements Serializable {

 private String item1;
 private String item2;
 private String[] data;

 public MyMsg() {
 }

 public String[] getData() {
 return data;
 }

 public void setData(String[] data) {
 this.data = data;
 }

 public String getItem1() {
 return item1;
 }

 public void setItem1(String item1) {
 this.item1 = item1;
 }

 public String getItem2() {
 return item2;
 }

 public void setItem2(String item2) {
 this.item2 = item2;
 }
}

Axis is generating ths following SOAP message.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <soapenv:Body>
 <pingMsg xmlns="http://wstest/">
 <MyMsg_1 xmlns="">
 <data>
 <data>shawn</data>
 <data>white</data>
 </data>
 <item1>ip</item1>
 <item2 xsi:nil="true"/>
 </MyMsg_1>
 </pingMsg>
 </soapenv:Body>
 </soapenv:Envelope>

Basically is seems to fail on the array field. I took the array field out and it worked fine.

I'm not using a ws4ee-deployment.xml file as the one being auto generated seems fine. Though, I did try it to no avail.

I belive I've followed all the advice on the WIKI but a bit at a loss why the String[] is not being handled properly.

Also for some reason Axis is not putting the xmlns value for the parameter, so JBossWS also gives a warning about this (this normal?). Is this possibly the cause?

Any help would be very appreciated