java "Class file contains wrong class" error

Question

I'm trying to make a console application to test my webservice. I successfully deployed a webservice at http://localhost:8080/WS/myWS and i made proxy classes with wsimport:

wsimport -d bin -s src http://localhost:8080/WS/myWS?wsdl

Now my webservice classes are located in bin/mywebservice/ and i'm trying to compile my client class with classpath = ./

Here's the source code of my class:

import bin.mywebservice.myClass_Service;
public class TesterApp{
    public static void main (String args[])
    {    
        myClass_Service service = new myClass_Service(); 
    }
}

And i have error:

TesterApp.java:1: error: cannot access myClass_Service
import bin.mywebservice_Service.myClass;
                               ^
  bad class file: .\bin\mywebservice\myClass_Service.class
    class file contains wrong class: mywebservice.myClass_Service
    Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.

please help, what's wrong with myClass_Service? i swear, myClass_Service.class exists in .\bin\mywebservice\

Dave Newton Dave Newton · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-04T17:46:05

You're incorrectly including the bin in the import declaration.

Rather put bin on the classpath and correct the import.

Unless (the poorly-named) myClass_Service.java file is package bin.mywebservice (which it isn't, according the the error message), you're trying to correct the problem in the wrong place.

java "Class file contains wrong class" error

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