Passing primitive in RPC calls

[Chad La Joie <cl...@vt.edu>]

I've looked through the archives and noticed a lot of people asking about 
how you pass primitive data types in RPC calls, yet I haven't seen any 
comprehensive answers.  So let me ask the question in a different way.

I want to pass a primitive in an RPC call.  I understand that I can wrap it 
in it's java.lang equivalent, however, how does the service know to 
deserialize that back into a primitive as opposed to the wrapper class for 
my method?

Here is an example.  I have the following method exposed for use by SOAP

addChannel(ChannelMetadata metadata, boolean forceAdd)

and I create an RPC Parameter as follows

new Parameter("forceAdd", Boolean.class, new Boolean(false), null);

Now does the SOAP server use reflection to determine I need a boolean and 
hence pass a boolean primitive to the above method, or is it going to 
blindly pass a Boolean?  If it does pass a Boolean, how can I get it to 
pass a boolean?

Chad La Joie                    "It is true that you never know what
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                                  been missing until it arrives."