Serializing a SOAPEnvelope

[Ric Searle]

Hi,

Just a quick one about serialization:

I have a SOAPEnvelope object, which I want to write to disk to be 
processed later.  I thought that serializing it would be a  nice idea.  
I'm serializing it like this:

                FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
        ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
        oos.writeObject(soapEnvelope);

        oos.close();
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();
But when I deserialize it by doing this...

                ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
        SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = (SOAPEnvelope) ois.readObject();
        ois.close();
...the structure of the original SOAP message is there, but none of the 
content is recovered.

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,

Ric Searle