Hello,

I use EJB3-annotated Webservices in JBoss 4.0.4 GA. This worked fine, even with rather complex types, up until now.

I have an Interface

public interface EntityAware<E> {

 /**
 * @return an entity of type E
 * @throws EntityConversionException
 */
 E getEntity() throws EntityConversionException;

}

which I want my DTOs to implement. Like this:

public class PersonInfo implements EntityAware<Person> {

 ...

 public Person getEntity() throws EntityConversionException {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 return null;
 }

}

If then, such a DTO (implementing the interface) is used as a type in my Webservice, the WSDL gets very complex. It would then include all affected namespaces in the java class hierachy down to java.lang.Class.

Example:

...
<import namespace="http://reflect.lang.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" />
<import namespace="http://cert.security.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://annotation.lang.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://lang.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://services.ws.foo.bar.com/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://net.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://security.java/jaws" />
<import namespace="http://util.java/jaws" />
...

Is this a desired behaviour?

To my understanding a DTO should be able to implement any kind of interface without the datatypes of that very interface having any kind of impact on the schema-representation of the DTO in the WSDL.

Is there a way to change that behaviour by configuration or do I need a newer version of jbossws?

Best regards and many thanks,

Martin Hesse