Service Operation Name conventions:

• Start operation name with a lowercase letter as in the following example:

    getEmployees
    selectActiveAccount

SOAP Server Type conventions.

• Start type with an uppercase letter.

• Start element/variable name with at least two lowercase letters.

• Do not start element/variable name with a number.

• Do not embed numbers in element/variable name. If a number is embedded then uppercase the first letter after the number.

• Do not use an element/variable name of typeDesc. The Apache Axis WSDL2Java program generates bean classes with a member variable with this name.

Example of element/variable names:

    date
    amount
    sentDate
    active_status

• An Apache Axis generated bean class can only have a maximum of 254 member variables. This is due to the Java constructor limit of 254 parameters.

• Axis creates JSR-101 compliant Java names from SOAP XML names using the following method:

org.apache.axis.utils.JavaUtils.xmlNameToJava ( xmlName )

Also, see:

• Example of a SOAP Server Wizard generated bean class
• Example of Apache Axis WSDL2Java generated bean class