wsimport fails when trying to create client service library
I am trying to create a client library to access Mantis from java. The problem is that I am getting an error and I don't know why.
Running this command:
wsimport http://www.mantisbt.org/demo/api/soap/mantisconnect.php?wsdl
simply fails. It is supposed to create some kind of client libraries for access to the service from java, but I get this error:
[ERROR] "Use of SOAP Encoding is not supported.
SOAP extension element on line 1,075 in http://www.mantisbt.org/demo/api
/soap/mantisconnect.php?wsdl has use="encoded" "
I looked on internet and there are vague references to this error, that it seems as an error of an directive, but it is not the case: I've tried to fix this problem with a downloaded version of the xml and it didn't work.
I think I could need some kind of catalogue for achieve this generation succesfully, could it be?? If so, does anyone how to create this?? I made some search but my knowledge of web services in general is too limited to achieve that.
Thanks in advance,
Answer
The crux of the issue is that the mantis WSDL is describing an rpc/encoded web service and that style is not supported in the modern wsimport tool.
A good writeup of the different types of web service styles is at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-whichwsdl/.
A related question and self-service answer is provided at Best way to consume RPC/encoded webservice?. That answer makes the comment 'I'm also in doubt about using JAX-RPC for this job, because it's way out-dated.', but that really is what you are dealing with here so using the 'old library' really would be the correct way to go.