Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Web Services Explorer hates Timestamp, Date and Time

WebService Explorer is a brilliant tool in Eclipse that auto-generates a UI to make calls agains a SOAP WSDL. The WSDL can be hosted locally, or taken from an active web service. From there you can fill in your data and make a submission to see what happens!

Just don't try using Timestamps or you'll come across validation errors galore. Boo.

But wait! Now you can check out this handy URL about SOAP datatypes and how websphere translates them. Specifically, you can see what the input string needed to pass validation is:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?
topic=/com.ibm.wsadapters602.jca_jdbc.doc/doc/cjdb_attribasi.html

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