Tools: "NoDataBinding" option for doc/literal Web Services ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBWS-299 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-299 Project: JBoss Web Services Issue Type: Feature Request Components: tools-jaxrpc Reporter: Anil Saldhana Priority: Optional Fix For: community contributions wscompile has an option "-f:nodatabinding" that turns off data binding in the input parameters and return types for doc/lit web services. More information is available in the feature matrix. That info is copy/pasted here: wscompile uses this option to turn off data binding for literal encoding. This is a very important option when dealing with doc/literal wsdl files. Let us take an example of a web service that returns employee data. The SEI generated by wscompile will look as follows: public interface EmployeeQuery extends Remote { public double getSalary() throws RemoteException; public String getManagerName(int level) throws RemoteException; } Now if the -f:nodatabinding option is used, the generated SEI will not have any typed arguments or return types, but they will all be mapped to javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement (xsd:any equivalent). public interface EmployeeQuery extends Remote { public javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement getSalary() throws RemoteException; public javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement getManagerName(javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement level) throws RemoteException; } Supported by jbossws with the "nodatabinding" attribute in the <wsdltojava> element. A point to be noted is the user will have to use SAAJ to construc messages to invoke the webservice and has to decode the return message (if any) using SAAJ.