[jboss-user] [JBossWS] - Web Service Response encoding problem

Hi, I'm having problem with the encoding of java.lang.String in my Web Service response. Seems like a String in a complex data structure will be returned as ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. If the WebMethod only returns a String it will be interpreted correctly as UTF-8. Very odd. I've written a small example made up of one interface: package se.test.webservice.bean; | | @javax.jws.WebService | @javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding(style = javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding.Style.RPC) | public interface Text extends java.rmi.Remote { | @javax.jws.WebMethod(operationName = "TEST1") | String test1((a)javax.jws.WebParam(name = "Text1") | String x); | | @javax.jws.WebMethod(operationName = "TEST2") | String[] test2((a)javax.jws.WebParam(name = "Text2") | String x); | } and a stateless session bean: package se.test.webservice.bean; | | @javax.ejb.Stateless | @javax.jws.WebService(endpointInterface = "se.test.webservice.bean.Text") | public class TextBean { | public String test1(String x) { | return ">" + x + "<"; | } | | public String[] test2(String x) { | String[] returnValue = {">" + x + "<", ">" + x + "<"}; | return returnValue; | } | } The jar is deployed on JBoss AS 4.2.1.GA. Calling method TEST1, I'm using the Web Service Explorer from within Eclipse, with a character string containing Swedish special characters "&uuml;&aring;&auml;&ouml;&Uuml;&Aring;&Auml;&Ouml;–" (I hope these will come out OK when I submit this post) the response looks fine. But calling method TEST2 with the same string will produce a response that looks like it is UTF-8 characters interpreted as ISO-8859-1: "üåäöÜÅÄ֓". Strange. This is the produced wsdl: <definitions name='TextBeanService' | targetNamespace='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | xmlns='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/' | xmlns:ns1='http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array' | xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/' | xmlns:tns='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'> | <types> | <xs:schema targetNamespace='http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array' | version='1.0' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'> | <xs:complexType final='#all' name='stringArray'> | <xs:sequence> | <xs:element maxOccurs='unbounded' minOccurs='0' | name='item' nillable='true' type='xs:string' /> | </xs:sequence> | </xs:complexType> | </xs:schema> | | </types> | <message name='Text_TEST2'> | <part name='Text2' type='xsd:string'></part> | </message> | <message name='Text_TEST1'> | <part name='Text1' type='xsd:string'></part> | </message> | <message name='Text_TEST2Response'> | <part name='return' type='ns1:stringArray'></part> | | </message> | <message name='Text_TEST1Response'> | <part name='return' type='xsd:string'></part> | </message> | <portType name='Text'> | <operation name='TEST1' parameterOrder='Text1'> | <input message='tns:Text_TEST1'></input> | <output message='tns:Text_TEST1Response'></output> | </operation> | | <operation name='TEST2' parameterOrder='Text2'> | <input message='tns:Text_TEST2'></input> | <output message='tns:Text_TEST2Response'></output> | </operation> | </portType> | <binding name='TextBinding' type='tns:Text'> | <soap:binding style='rpc' | transport='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http' /> | <operation name='TEST1'> | <soap:operation soapAction='' /> | | <input> | <soap:body namespace='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | use='literal' /> | </input> | <output> | <soap:body namespace='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | use='literal' /> | </output> | </operation> | <operation name='TEST2'> | <soap:operation soapAction='' /> | | <input> | <soap:body namespace='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | use='literal' /> | </input> | <output> | <soap:body namespace='http://bean.webservice.test.se/' | use='literal' /> | </output> | </operation> | </binding> | <service name='TextBeanService'> | | <port binding='tns:TextBinding' name='TextBeanPort'> | <soap:address | location='http://127.0.0.1:8080/TextBeanService/TextBean' /> | </port> | </service> | </definitions> This is the response from TEST1: <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> | <env:Header /> | <env:Body> | <ns0:TEST1Response | xmlns:ns0="http://bean.webservice.test.se/"> | <return>>&uuml;&aring;&auml;&ouml;&Uuml;&Aring;&Auml;&Ouml;<</return> | </ns0:TEST1Response> | </env:Body> | </env:Envelope> And the response from TEST2: | <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> | <env:Header /> | <env:Body> | <ns0:TEST2Response | xmlns:ns0="http://bean.webservice.test.se/"> | <return> | <item>>üåäöÜÅÄ֓<</item> | <item>>üåäöÜÅÄ֓<</item> | </return> | </ns0:TEST2Response> | </env:Body> | </env:Envelope> I hope someone can shed some light on the problem. I looked at the preview and of course all the characters looked like crap. I'll try to restore them above but if I fail the correct version of the characters should look like "üåäöÜÅÄÖ" or "&uuml;&aring;&auml;&ouml;&Uuml;&Aring;&Auml;&Ouml;" whatever version looks best. I wont even try to fix the TEST2-response. Regards, Anders View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114381#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...