Use a custom class as a SOAP return type?

[Swiftslide]

I'm using NetBeans's Web Service generation tools. I've looked at the tutorials available, but cannot find anything on how to use a custom class as a return type. Most of the tutorials I've read are no more complex than Hello World: they take and return simple types like Strings.

So say I want a class that has 3 fields: a String, an int and a double[]. So far, the only way I can pass my own classes is by creating "envelope classes", with no methods, a parameter-less constructor, and with all fields declared public. I'd prefer to write standard java classes. Obviously I cannot send the methods across SOAP, but I would have thought there was a way to ignore the methods when Marshalling the class, and only Marshall the fields.

Somebody has told me there are Annotations that facilitate this, but I can't find any tutorials on how to implement them. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated

[Jeffrey Rubinoff]

Swiftslide,
I don't know if this is helpful, but have you looked at the Web Service
Passing Binary Data tutorial,
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/websvc/flower_overview.html ? This shows how
to pass a java.awt.Image over SOAP. Perhaps your use case is analogous?

Jeff

On 5/17/2011 10:48 AM, Swiftslide wrote: