Rationale for Id and IDRef types?

[Dennis Sosnoski <dm...@sosnoski.com>]

When I generate code from a doc/lit WSDL that includes ID/IDREF links I 
get instances of the org.apache.axis.types.Id and 
org.apache.axis.types.IDRef classes in my generated data objects. These 
don't appear to do anything useful, at least not in the sense of linking 
the IDREF to the ID (the whole point of using these types in XML).

The JAX-RPC RI treats ID and IDREF as simple strings unless an optional 
flag is used in the code generation (resolveidref), in which case 
they're converted into object id and reference (so the ID values are 
used as identifiers for objects, and the IDREFs become java.lang.Object 
references). This is the way I'd expect these to be used in Java. Are 
there plans to implement this functionality in Axis? I don't see any 
relevant options listed in the 1.1 alpha WSDL2Java list.

  - Dennis