I have created java based web service and noticed an interesting way wsimport treats jaxb parameters/return objects. When a web method returns a jaxb object wsimport creates it as a sub-object (Nested) of that method.
An example... let us say I have a method called GetRoles() that returned a jaxb generated object called RoleAdministration. Wsimport generates the following nested object: GetRoles.RoleAdministration.
However if the same method returned a plain old serialized java object it gets returned by wsimport as RoleAdministration. This seems to be better to me since I can use this for other web methods that happen to use it as a parameter or a return type.
A) Why does the object being jaxb generated change the way wsimport generates it? B) Is there anything special to force wsimport to 'flatten' parameter and return objects?
As requested:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<groupId>com.server</groupId>
<artifactId>Server-WEB</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Server-WEB</name>
<properties>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>jax-ws-catalog.xml</include>
<include>wsdl/**</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
<silent>true</silent>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions></executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices-api</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<sourceDestDir>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/jaxws-wsimport</sourceDestDir>
<xnocompile>true</xnocompile>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<extension>true</extension>
<catalog>${basedir}/src/jax-ws-catalog.xml</catalog>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
<version>7.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.metro</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices-rt</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
EDIT: First block is how the same object looks without jaxb annotations and the second block is how it looks with the jaxb annotations.
<xs:complexType name="RoleResponse">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="code" type="xs:int"/>
<xs:element name="message" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="roleAdministration" type="tns:RoleAdministrationDSO" minOccurs="0"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="RoleAdministrationDSO">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="dusfe" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="roles" minOccurs="0">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Role" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="FunctionalArea" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
And here is the jaxb version:
<xs:complexType name="RoleResponse">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="code" type="xs:int"/>
<xs:element name="message" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="roleAdministration" minOccurs="0">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Roles">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Role" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="FunctionalArea" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Privledge" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence/>
<xs:attribute name="Name" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="Active" type="xs:boolean"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="Name" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="Name" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="RoleID" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="dusfe" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="Version" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="Validation" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="ServerType" type="xs:int"/>
<xs:attribute name="Message" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="Code" type="xs:int"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
