XSLT and SOAP-RPC

[Brandon Du Rette <br...@tonic.com>]

First let me apologize if this message makes it to
the list twice.  I tried to send it from another 
account and it does not seem to have made it, so 
I'm going to try to send it from this account.
 
I am implementing a SOAP-RPC service which gets data 
from other XML services and returns complex data 
structures (i.e. beans) composed of the data in the 
other XML services.  On the client side, I prefer to
use the BeanSerializer to deserialize the response 
into usable Java objects.  However, on the server side, 
using beans doesn't really make sense, since doing so
generates a large number of throw-away objects.  To me, 
XSLT seems to make a lot of sense in this situation.  
Transform foreign XML into local SOAP-XML.  Has anyone 
done this?  Are there examples somewhere?  Would I have 
to write my own serializer perhaps?
 
I have a method signature on the server side that looks 
something like:
 
    public Element getComplexObject(...) 
 
Of course, I get a "No serializer found..." error, 
because there's no serializer available for "Element".  
But I just want the returned element to be the "return" 
portion of the response body.
 
Comments?  Ideas?  Thanks.
 
Brandon
 
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Brandon DuRette             Tonic Software               
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