Error parsing WSDL with exception use=“encoded”

Question

Everytime I run wsimport, I get this error:

[ERROR] "Use of SOAP Encoding is not supported. SOAP extension element on line 65 in file:dummy.wsdl has use="encoded" " Failed to parse the WSDL.

WSDL (error block):

<wsdl:input name="dummyRequest">
        <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
                   namespace="urn:cmg.stdapp.webservices.generalplugin" use="encoded" />
</wsdl:input>

Answer 1

This is because the given WSDL is using 'encoded' which is a RPC encoding and a very old way of doing things. RPC encoding is not supported by wsimport

Some more info on your error message (original, broken link on java.net)

As an alternative try use Apache Axis which is yucky and old, but I guess it will get you going.

For a Maven project, drop your WSDL in src/main/resources/wsdl And add the following to your pom.xml

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.axis</groupId>
   <artifactId>axis</artifactId>
   <version>1.4</version>
   <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.axis</groupId>
   <artifactId>axis-jaxrpc</artifactId>
   <version>1.4</version>
   <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
   <groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
   <artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
   <version>1.6.2</version>
   <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

<plugins>
...
<plugin>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
   <artifactId>axistools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.4</version>
   <executions>
       <execution>
           <goals>
               <goal>wsdl2java</goal>
           </goals>
       </execution>
   </executions>
   <configuration>
       <packageSpace>com.mycompany.service.client</packageSpace>
       <sourceDirectory>src/main/resources/wsdl</sourceDirectory>
       <outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/wsdl2java</outputDirectory>
   </configuration>
</plugin>