Hi Jason,

The wiki says you need to wrap the array in some bean, so:

public interface MySingleMethodEndpoint {
 Person[] getPersons();
}

Should become:

public interface MySingleMethodEndpoint {
 PersonList getPersons();
}

where PersonList is:

 class PersonList {
 private Person[] list;
 getList() / setList(...)
 }

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This wont work as well...
Before offering a solution - let's see if all is understood correctly:
At deploy time, JBoss:
1. Looks for webservices.xml
2. Looks for the wsdl and <jaxrpc-mapping-file>.xml file (specified inside the webservices.xml)
3. Looks for a ws4ee-deployment.xml (optionally), explained later
4. Creates a .wsdd out of the above files - this file is used by Axis to deploy the web service

After that, JBoss (actually Axis) doesnt rely on webserivces.xml and its J2EE 1.4 comlpiant friends
It relies only on the wsdd (which is very much Okay because this is implementation specifiec)

But, If you look at the wsdd generated from our 'PersonList' example, you will see ONLY ONE type-mapping:

 <typeMapping
 qname='ns2:PersonList' xmlns:ns2='http://structs.myservice.com'
 type='java:com.myservice.structs.PersonList'
 serializer='org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory'
 deserializer='org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory'
 encodingStyle='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'>
 </typeMapping>

JBoss should've automatically generated a type-mapping descriptor for class 'Person' as well
To solve this probelm, add the 'Person' mapping yourself to ws4ee-deployment.xml
When you supply this optionaly file, JBoss merges its content with the generated .wsdd (At Step #3 of the above scenario)
The 'Person' mapping should look like this:

 <typeMapping
 qname='ns2:Person' xmlns:ns2='http://structs.myservice.com'
 type='java:com.myservice.structs.Person'
 serializer='org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory'
 deserializer='org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory'
 encodingStyle='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'>
 </typeMapping>

This will solve the PersonList problem


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In fact, you can even return to the first version of your web service:
public interface MySingleMethodEndpoint {
Person[] getPersons();
}

once, you have the ws4ee-deployment.xml descriptor, you can use plain arrays in your web services

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Jason, could it be that I missed something in the other DD files (.wsdl, jaxrpc-mapping, jboss.xml) which prevented
'Person' from being auto-generated and inserted into the .wsdd file?

Again, Thanks a lot for your time...

Eyal