Question

Let’s say I have a ClassA which contains some members of type String and 1 member of an array of ClassB which in turn contains just a String member. Something like this:

public class ClassB{

    private String string1;
    public ClassB(){
        string1 = "value1";
    }
}

public class ClassA{

    private String string1;
    private String string2;
    private ClassB[] classB = null;

    public ClassA(){
        string1 = "value1";
        string2 = "value2";
        classB = new ClassB[2];
        classB[0] = new ClassB();
        classB[1] = new ClassB();
    }
}

Now I define a member function in my end point class as follows:

//...
public ClassA getClassA(){
    return new ClassA();
}
//...

This code is obviously useless and incomplete and probably even wrong as I wrote it out of my head, but it demonstrates my point.

When I run java2wsdl.sh on this class (or a similar construct) I get a .wsdl file but the array ClassB[] is ignored.
I understand that axis2 by default uses JAXB serialization and I tried to control the output using annotations but to no avail.

How can I change the behaviour so that ClassB[] is included in the .wsdl file?

Answer 1

A necessary (but maybe not sufficient) condition to make this work is to declare ClassB as static.