Can this soap message be consumed ?

[Rr Kumaran]

Hi All,

I am using AXIS 1.2 RC2, Custom (De)Serializers. I am returning a custom class (Forecast.java) from a EJB Web Service method which has java.util.HashMap member variable in it. Now when I access this service I am getting below soap response from the web service deployed on WebSphere. It is assumed that my hashmap has java.lang.String's as keys and java.lang.String's as values

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <soapenv:Body>
      <getWeatherResponse xmlns="http://ws.si.com/wsdl/ws/ab">
         <forecast xmlns="http://ws.si.com/schemas/ws/ab">
            <zip>343434</zip>
            <city>Campbell</city>
            <state>CA</state>
            <date>April 11, 2003</date>
            <hash-map size="2">
               <entry key="a">b</entry>
               <entry key="c">d</entry>
            </hash-map>
         </forecast>
      </getWeatherResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I think for any web service client to consume this message it needs custom (De)Serializes. Can any java based client or .NET based client successfully consume this soap message ? How does a .NET client consume this ? Please suggest ?

How the HashMap representation in soap message can be translated to java.util.HashMap on client side assuming we are using java on client side ?



Thanks & Regards,