Is this a bug in serialization?

[Naresh Bhatia <NB...@sapient.com>]

I am trying to serialize two different objects, both of which happen to have
the same value. Unfortunately the generated SOAP message contains only one
value for the object and two references pointing to it. Is this a bug or am
I missing something?

Here's how I create the two objects in Java:

    Message msg1 = new Message("Error");
    Message msg2 = new Message("Error");

When the serialization framework encounters the second object, it thinks
that it is the same as the first one (because the hashcode function returns
the same value) and hence creates a reference to the first object:

  <msg1 href="#id8"/>
  <msg2 href="#id8"/>

  <multiRef id="id8"
            SOAP-ENC:root="0"
            soapenv:encodingStyle=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
            xsi:type="ns14:Message"
            xmlns:ns14="http://test">
   <text xsi:type="xsd:string">Error</text>
  </multiRef>

I have created the Message object using WSDL2Java and it contains the
equals() and hashcode() methods.

Please help!

Naresh Bhatia