Axis 1.3 and VOTable 1.1 schema

[Guy Rixon]

Matthew,

I sympathise. Axis 1.3 can be nasty when it turns on you.

My experience in AstroGrid is that you can "compile" your WSDL to Java stubs
and beans using Axis 1.2.1 and then use those classes with Axis 1.3. I.e. the
WSDL2java stage is treated as part of the coding, not part of the build
process.

However, it may be better not to use Axis 1.3 at all. It has fatal problems
when doing digital signatures (corrupts the messages during deserialization
s.t. the signatures are invalidated); the Axis and WSS4J teams don't seem to
have any solution yet.

Cheers,
Guy

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry if you get multiple copies of this but this is a bit of a
> showstopper: whereas Axis 1.2.1 handled the VOTable 1.1 schema without
> any complaints so you could generate Java clients to Skynode and other
> services which use it, Axis 1.3 bombs out with the old recursion error:
>
> java.io.IOException: The definition of
> {http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/xml/VOTable-1.1.xsd}OPTION results in a loop.
>
> i.e. OPTION can contain OPTION ad infinitum.
>
> The workaround is to use a hacked version of the WSDL importing a hacked
> version of the VOTable schema which is not ideal and certainly not for
> real astronomers.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew
>

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