[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: webservice

[lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Peter,

>Hi - in general is it possible to return a "custom type" from a java 
>webservice? I mean for example a simple class such as
>
>public class MyClass {
>  private String name;
>  public String getName() {
>    return name;
>  }
>  public void setName(String name) {
>    this.name = name;
>  }
>}

Yes it is. 

>I have not been able to get this to work using Axis2 - my  client which 
is 
>a c# application always recieves a MyClass object with a null name. If I 
>simply return a String from my web-service method then that works fine.

I'm not sure how Axis2 generates Web services. As an alternative method, 
you can develop your service top down, describing your service first by 
creating a WSDL document and then generating stub code that you can hook 
up to your objects.

>Are there any general pitfalls with writing webservices in java? (I have 
>written several with Visual Studio c#, and this is easy - you click on 
the 
>"make webservice project" button...)

There are definitely places where people go wrong (I see a lot of invalid 
XML schemas) because of complexity but no limitations of Java Web 
services.

Lawrence