Problem with structure -> map in SOAP encoding

[Chris192]

Hoping someone can help me here as I'm getting desperate!

I'm exposing a web service using ColdFusion MX 6.1. According to all documentation I can find, Axis should convert the structure data type to "Map" with this defined as follows:

<complexType name=&quot;Map&quot;>
<sequence>
<element name=&quot;item&quot; minOccurs=&quot;0&quot; maxOccurs=&quot;unbounded&quot;> <complexType> <all> <element name=&quot;key&quot; type=&quot;xsd:anyType&quot;/> <element name=&quot;value&quot; type=&quot;xsd:anyType&quot;/> </all> </complexType> </element> </sequence> </complexType>

This would work perfectly for me. However when I expose my web service, the map type is defined as:

<complexType name=&quot;mapItem&quot;>
<sequence>
<element name=&quot;key&quot; nillable=&quot;true&quot; type=&quot;xsd:string&quot; /> <element name=&quot;value&quot; nillable=&quot;true&quot; type=&quot;xsd:string&quot; /> </sequence> </complexType> <complexType name=&quot;Map&quot;> <sequence> <element name=&quot;item&quot; minOccurs=&quot;0&quot; maxOccurs=&quot;unbounded&quot; type=&quot;apachesoap:mapItem&quot; /> </sequence> </complexType>

I cannot work with this as the mapItem elements are both defined strings rather than anyType in the documented specification, and I need to use other complex types as values in the mapItem.

Anyone got any ideas?

Kind regards,

Chris