Hi,

I've been forced to get Java to work with a WSDL/SOAP web service. I admit that I don't really understand the nuts and bolts but I've managed to work my way around it.

What I've done so far is access services just like you would through a web browser, for example:

https://myserver/webservices/insertP...ate=2010-09-29

This has worked for everything up until this particular web service as I get class cast exceptions returned by the server on the date field if I manually type it in. I have a PHP example that works perfectly I just can't get java to do the same.

So I have to use a full blown SOAP client. The problem is now I'm getting the error:
Message part {https://myserver/webservices/insertPhone}insertPhoneResponse was not recognized. (Does it exist in service WSDL?)

Here is the code in question:

PHP Code:
try {
            SOAPConnectionFactory sfc = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
            SOAPConnection connection = sfc.createConnection();

            MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
            SOAPMessage sm = mf.createMessage();

            SOAPHeader sh = sm.getSOAPHeader();
            SOAPBody sb = sm.getSOAPBody();
            sh.detachNode();

            QName bodyName = new QName(
                    "https://myserver/webservices/insertPhone",
                    "insertPhoneResponse");
            SOAPBodyElement bodyElement = sb.addBodyElement(bodyName);
           
            // Username
            QName qn = new QName("username");
            SOAPElement value = bodyElement.addChildElement(qn);
            value.addTextNode("blah");
            // Password
            qn = new QName("password");
            value = bodyElement.addChildElement(qn);
            value.addTextNode("blah");

           // notes
            qn = new QName("notes");
            value = bodyElement.addChildElement(qn);
            value.addTextNode("testing please ignore");

            // Date
            qn = new QName("date");
            value = bodyElement.addChildElement(qn);
            value.addTextNode("2010-09-29T15:32:11+00:00");//The php code for this field is date('c')

            System.out.println("\n Soap Request:\n");
            sm.writeTo(System.out);
            System.out.println();

            URL endpoint = new URL(
                    "https://myserver/webservices/insertPhone");
            SOAPMessage response = connection.call(sm, endpoint);
            connection.close();
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("Response: ");
            // Create a transformer
            TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            // Retrieve content of the response
            Source content = response.getSOAPPart().getContent();
            // Display it on the console
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
            transformer.transform(content, result);
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
            
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } 
Any hints would be appreciated, I'm guessing its an endpoint or body qname problem but I've tried lots of permutations to no effect.