Setter method not generated in stub classes

[Nev Mehta]

Created a HelloWorld webservice to try to learn how to use objects as input and return params. I created the webservice which had a method

@WebMethod HelloWorldOut getHelloWorldAsObject(HelloWorldIn in) ;

Following are the HelloWorldIn and HelloWorldOut objects

public class HelloWorldOut {

    private String outparam1;
    private java.util.ArrayList<String> outparam2;

    public String getOutparam1() {
        return outparam1;
    }
    public void setOutparam1(String outparam1) {
        this.outparam1 = outparam1;
    }
    public java.util.ArrayList<String> getOutparam2() {
        return outparam2;
    }
    public void setOutparam2(java.util.ArrayList<String> outparam2) {
        this.outparam2 = outparam2;
    }


}

public class HelloWorldIn {

    private String inparam1;
    private java.util.ArrayList<String> inparam2;

    public String getInparam1() {
        return inparam1;
    }
    public void setInparam1(String inparam1) {
        this.inparam1 = inparam1;
    }
    public java.util.ArrayList<String> getInparam2() {
        return inparam2;
    }
    public void setInparam2(java.util.ArrayList<String> inparam2) {
        this.inparam2 = inparam2;
    }


}

WSDL was generated, following was the XSD representation of the objects

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1.0" targetNamespace="http://ws.myapp.com/">
<xs:complexType name="helloWorldIn">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="inparam1" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="inparam2" type="xs:string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="helloWorldOut">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="outparam1" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="outparam2" type="xs:string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

Problem is when i generate stub classes using wsimport the setters for the List variable are missing for HelloWorldIn and HelloWorldOut. Any clues why this maybe happening?

[James Boswell]

In your generated classes, do you see a comment along the lines of:

This accessor method returns a reference to the live list, not a snapshot. Therefore any modification you make to the returned list will be present inside the JAXB object. This is why there is not a <CODE>set</CODE> method for the XXX property.

[Nev Mehta]

Yes it does and the solution was in the comments itself. As far as the reason is concerned i guess google will suffice. Thanks for pointing out.