Interface Serialization

[James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>]

Has anyone implemented interface serialization/deserialization yet?  Off the
top of my head, an implementation could do something like this (neglecting
namespaces of course)...

<my-interface concreteClassName="com.mycompany.mypackage.MyInterfaceImpl">
  <!-- In here, you would just allow a BeanSerializer to output the concrete
implementation as a bean -->
</my-interface>

Basically, this would be a wrapper for the BeanSerializer that would
determine what the Java type is based upon the concreteClassName attribute
is.  The WSDL generation of this would be a little tricky.  We would have to
enumerate the concrete types supported by the serializer somehow so that it
could generate WSDL which uses a "choice" of possible sub-element types.
Does this sound feasible?  Has anyone done it?

James Carman, President
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