Sounds pretty reasonable. I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion.
-Roy
>Have you considered using the "Value Object" pattern. Specifically,
>you can create a bean which holds the update values and also a set
>of booleans indicating which fields to update:
>
> {
> long ID;
> boolean updateID;
>
> String name;
> boolean updateName;
>
> ...
> }
>
>You could also use this (or similar) bean to retrieve all the fields
>in a single network call.
>
>I've never done this with Axis, but I believe that Axis' built-in
>BeanSerialiser will take care of your Value Object automatically.
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