Hello everybody,
I am fairly new to Apache SOAP and need some help.
As part of my current project I am looking at using Maps containing other Java objects
of arbitrary depth as part of web service calls.
Regardless of whether I use RPC or XML messaging I would like to serialize a Map into
XML and deserialize XML into a Map.
If I use RPC I can simply register custom serializers/deserializers for each complex
type contained within the Map.
My questions are as follows:
1) If I use XML messaging, can I use custom serializers/deserializers to convert
between Java and XML or do I have to build my own serialization classes from scaratch
(i.e. are the Serializer and Deserializer interfaces exclusive to RPC?)
2) If the web service call is asynchronous, am I restricted to using XML Messaging or
can I make an asynchronous RPC call (e.g. posting a message to a JMS Queue exposed as
a web service (is exposing a JMS queue as a web service even possible??)).
I've spent all day looking at the Apache SOAP docs and the web and am having real
problems finding answers to my questions.
I hope somebody out there with more SOAP knowledge can help me.
Many Thanks In Advance
Paul Wadmore
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