Question

I have next code in my Entity class

class Role {  
private List<String> tubes;  
//...  
}  

Next Maven generate request-response classes, using jaxws-maven-plugin

@XmlRootElement(name = "getRoleResponse", namespace = "http://ws.config.com/")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "getRoleResponse", namespace = "http://ws.config.com/")
public class GetRoleResponse {

    @XmlElement(name = "return", namespace = "")
    private Role _return;
//...

}  

I send soap request and get response like

<tubes>1SO</tubes>
<tubes>2SO</tubes>
<tubes>3SO</tubes>
<tubes>4SO</tubes>  

But I want get request like:

<tubes> 
    <tube>1SO</tube>
    <tube>2SO</tube>
    <tube>3SO</tube>
    <tube>4SO</tube>  
</tubes>   

What can I do?

EDIT:

Part of generated WSDL

<xs:complexType name="role">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="tubes" type="xs:string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>

Answer 1

1. way:

   • specify the XSD
   • generate the JAXB classes
   • use the generated JAXB classes in your Web Service

2. way:

   • manually annotate the Role class with JAXB annotations as needed, e.g. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElementWrapper.html might help (personally, I seldom annotate JAXB classes manually. I usually generate them from XSD files)