Probably because whoever built the binary release did not have castor jar files around when building. We have quite a bit of code like that, which depends on optional jar files.
The thinking goes that those that need this functionality (which isn't really maintained by the current set of committers) would build it in to their own Axis binaries. -- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development > -----Original Message----- > From: Ananth T. Sarathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:43 PM > To: axis-dev@ws.apache.org > Subject: Re: Castor Deserializer not in jar file > > Is there are reason why the org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor > package is not incuded in the binaries jar? The souce code has the > package, but it is not in the distribution. > > > > -- > Ananth T Sarathy