How to reuse server side class in JAX-WS client?

I have a class on server side: ForumEntry, and I have a web service which returns a list of ForumEntry:

@WebService(name="ForumGeneral",serviceName="ForumGeneralService")
public class ForumGeneralService {

  @WebMethod
  public List<ForumEntry> getLatestTopics(String keyword,int count){
  ...
  }
}

When using wsimport to generate webservice client, it finishes fine, but a new ForumEntry type's created based on the web service. That makes sense, as a nature of web service is that client and server sides are decoupled.

But what if I want to reuse the server side ForumEntry and avoid a client side dummy class being created?

I found a post: http://jamablog.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-make-jax-ws-client-reuse_22.html.

Follow the idea, I added jaxb annotations to my server side ForumEntry class:

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "forumEntry", propOrder = {
    "forumId",
    "forumName",
})
public class ForumEntry

then used schemagen to generate the episode file, then passing it to wsimport using -b parameter. But I got problem as the generated episode file has entries for 'forumEntry':

[ERROR] SCD "~forumEntry" didnt match any schema component

I guess it means 'forumEntry's not showing up 开发者_Python百科in WSDL, which is right:

<message name="getLatestTopics">
<part name="parameters" element="tns:getLatestTopics"></part>
</message>
<message name="getLatestTopicsResponse">
<part name="parameters" element="tns:getLatestTopicsResponse"></part>
</message>

So how do all parts fit together here, to reuse the server side class?

You should add a ForumEntry class to the schema, so that the client can generate it, and use that generated class on your server side. Or add a new class to your schema that contains similar data to ForumEntry, and have the server create those objects on response from your ForumEntry objects, and return those created objects instead.