xml-dev - SOAP serialization

[Sasha Nakhimovsky <sasha@mail.colgate.edu>]

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@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:45 AM
To: Andrew Layman
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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

 


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