Re: wsif evaluation questions

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0700, Jeff Greif wrote:
> You can do dynamic invocation using WSIF even if complex types are=20
> involved.  You just can't do simple data binding.
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> Suppose without loss of generality that the web service requests and=20
> responses are in the form of SOAP messages.  The complex types included i=
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> a response will correspond to some XML elements in the message.  If you a=
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> doing dynamic invocation, you're not going to have Java classes defined=
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> corresponding to each of the complex types unless you generate code from=
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> the WSDL.  Presuming that you're not going to do that in a dynamic=20
> invocation, you can work with the org.w3c.dom.Element itself or some=20
> wrapper class you build around it.  Thus, any complex type is deserialize=
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> into an Element or your ComplexTypeWrapper.  In the latter case, the type=
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> name extracted from the wsdls corresponding to the element can be include=
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> in the wrapper instance, and then the information extracted from the wsdl=
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> and schemas about the type can be applied during processing by the client=
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> Similarly, when building a web service request, you'll have to assemble=
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> Elements corresponding to the complex types needed in the input.  Nothing=
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> is really lost here because again, you don't have a class around in your=
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> application corresponding to that complex type anyway.
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> The only special WSIF machinery you need for this is a type mapping for=
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> each complex type to ComplexTypeWrapper or Element.  These type mappings=
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> would be created on each invocation based on information in the wsdl and=
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> schemas.  They are usually only needed for the complex types correspondin=
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> to the "parts" of the input and output messages.

Hello, Jeff Greif!
Thank you for prompt response, however it's still not clear for me:

1) could you please explain how can I get list of available methods using
WSIF?

2) is it possible to get type definitions for the parameters and return val=
ues
for certain method using WSIF somehow?

3) if I will know such information, will I be able to prepare SOAP call and
invoke remote method with WSIF?

Thank you in advance!

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Eugene N Dzhurinsky

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