[jboss-user] [JBossWS] - Re: Type Hiererchy

[Arno Werr]

anonymous wrote : Looking at the WSDL generated for this I dont see Dog or Cat show up anywhere. Is that not valid for web services? Do I need to have separate getAllCats and getAllDogs methods that specify the exact return type?

Me neither. Yet  I think it's correct. 
Ask yourself for which purpose in Java-to-Java communication you would need such heavy web service implementation as SOAP (standard? marketecture over architecture?). In Java-to-Java there are plenty much lighter alternatives - just look at Spring remoting. 

We really need SOAP when we communicate with non-Java client/server - interoperability. And what if that non-Java platform does not support all/some features of OOP including inheritance? So SOAP web service is the lowest and heaviest possible denominator. Use concrete classes instead - exact return types.


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