because of possible cyclic reference problems mozilla javascript (current incarnation anyway) refuses to touch href's.
I rewrote a class this morning from an array of objects to several arrays of simple data types, thinking that I would bypass the href problem that way. But axis is still using an href to point to an external pseudo object with the same contents as would make sense in the primary object. i.e. was: class A { B infoReThisNode = new B(); A[] children = new A[length]; } rewrote to: class A { int length; String[] names; String[] descriptions; String[] ids; } but axis still serializes the simpler bean using an href. I assume I'll need to write my own custom serializer or return multiple response parameters. QUESTION 1: I browsed the archive but didn't see a nice, simple link to a "write your own custom axis serializer" -- could someone point me in a good direction? THANKS. QUESTION 2: how does java code look that returns multiple items? I've written several SOAP methods but never tried to return multiple unbundled items ... Again, thanks for the assistance, Heitzso