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Can SOAP serialize an arbitrary Java object without loss of data? What are the constraints, if any? A study of Section Five would of course yield the answer, but I'm hoping that it already exists in a pre-packaged form. adn -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Haustein [mailto:haustein@l...] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:45 AM To: Andrew Layman Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Default Namespaces - why don't they apply to attributes? Andrew Layman wrote: > > SOAP section five specifically provides serialization rules for entire > objects or graphs of objects. Its use is not limited to method calls but is > a general facility for serialization. Wouldn't it be clearer to put section five into an own document, or to give it at least a name like SSF (SOAP Serialization Format) that can be simpler referenced than "SOAP section five"? (Oops, what does SSF actually mean - SOAP Serialization Format or SOAP Section five? :-) My problem is: When I mention SOAP, I first need to explain that I do not mean HTTP+XML based RPC but the serialization format mentioned in section five of the spec... Best, Stefan -- Stefan Haustein Univ. Dortmund, FB 4, LS 8 tel: +49 231 755 2499 Baroper Str. 301 fax: +49 231 755 5105 D-44221 Dortmund (Germany) www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de
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