RE: Do I need a serializer ?

[Andrew Simpson <an...@speechworks.com>]

Standard apache serializers will (de)serialize most of what you need.  As
well as basic types, you can even d/s arrays of beans, or beans which
contain other beans.

Attached is a deployment descriptor for a stateless session bean which
returns arrays of beans, some sample beans, and some sample XML generated.

Andrew
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Tsao [mailto:jtsao@atinera.com]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:22 PM
To: soap-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: Do I need a serializer ?

I'm a beginner with SOAP, and have been reading a lot of documentation on
it.  I'm a bit confused about whether or not I need a serializer.
What I'm trying to build:
I want to use the RPC router servlet to provide a SOAP interface to our
existing platform.  Outside clients would make requests to our platform by
sending XML request messages (in SOAP format).  They would receive responses
also in XML.
So I basically need to take the XML message, grab the data out and
instantiate a bean to pass into our existing business objects.  Is this what
the deserializer is meant for ?  It doesn't seem like it.  The code that
does this seems very specific to the particular format of the XML message,
and seems more like DOM work to me.  When I get the response back from the
business object, I have to take the data out of the javabean, and construct
an XML message to be sent back to the client.  This once agains seems very
specific, and NOT serializer work.
If I'm right in my assumptions, do I need a serializer/deserializer then ??
Thanks for any help.