Problems working with an Axis2 Web Service

[ssri-stew]

Please please can anyone point me in the right direction with a problem I have been stuck on for quite a while?

I am currently facing issues invoking an Apache Axis2 Web Service written in Java from my ColdFusion (MX7) application. The Web Service has been written in-house by a colleague and deployed on a Linux server running Apache2 and Tomcat (6.0.14). The WS location is:

http://gw.bedsearcher.co.uk/BsTestWebService?wsdl

All methods of the WS expect 1 XML doc request and return 1 XML doc response. Every time I invoke a method for example searchEstabs I receive the following error message:

'No serializer found for class coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeList in registry org.apache.axis.encoding'

<!--- /// Start: Example Code --->

<cffile action="READ" file="C:\xyz\ExampleRequest1.xml" variable="ExampleRequest1">

<cfscript>
websrv = CreateObject("webservice"," http://gw.bedsearcher.co.uk/BsTestWebService?wsdl");
res = websrv.searchEstabs(XMLParse(Trim(ExampleRequest1)));
</cfscript>

<cfdump var="#res#">

<!--- /// End: Example Code --->

Thanks again,
Stewart 🙂

[BKBK]

It should be sufficient to just pass XML text, thus:

res = websrv.searchEstabs(ExampleRequest1);

[ssri-stew]

I wish it was that easy. If I don't pass an XML document object I get a

'stackTrace:error: The document is not a BsSearchEstabsRQ@ http://www.bedsearcher.co.uk/Bs/2007/01: document element mismatch'

[BKBK]

Most services that require you to input an xml object do accept the xml text. Could there be a problem in how your webservice receives the xml input? For example, a Coldfusion xml document object is not a Java object.

[BKBK]

An experiment shows that

<cfargument name= "orderXML" type = "string" required="Yes">

will work in a web service, but

<cfargument name= "orderXML" type = "xml" required="Yes">

will cause an exception. An example follows: