I have been having problems passing a serializable JavaBean object as an argument to an EJB exposed as a web service using JBoss.net. However, returning a JavaBean object works just fine. It returns the following error:

org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeser cannot handle structured data!

The odd thing is I have tried this using just Axis running on Tomcat and it work just find. I have tried creating a simple Java class deploy as a web service in JBoss and I can pass the same JavaBean with no problem. But when I attempt to pass the Bean class to an EJB, I get this error.

I am using the version of JBoss.net bundled with JBoss 3.0.0. I am not sure if this is a bug or I am doing something wrong.

The bean classes is registered in the web-service.xml file as:



And the client code looks like this:

String endpoint = "http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CustomerBO";
String methodName = "test";

Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
QName qn = new QName( "CustomerData" );

call.registerTypeMapping(CustomerData.class, qn,
new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory(CustomerData.class, qn),
new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory(CustomerData.class, qn));

call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
call.setOperationName(methodName);

// Call to addParameter/setReturnType as described in user-guide.html
call.addParameter("arg0",
qn,
ParameterMode.PARAM_MODE_IN);
call.setReturnType(XMLType.XSD_STRING);

CustomerData data = new CustomerData();
data.setCustomerId(new Integer(1));
data.setEmail("firstname.lastname@yahoo.com");
data.setFirstName("firstname");
data.setLastName("lastname");

String ret = (String)call.invoke( new Object[] { data } );

System.out.println(ret);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.err.println(e.toString());
}

Any help or insight would be appreciated.

Mark