I just noticed the follwing in the faq at http://xml.apache.org/soap/faq/faq_chawke.html#Q3_1
7.3 How do you serialize java.util.Date objects? Use BeanSerializer. Either add a mapping for date in the deployment xml file or call SOAPMappingRegistry.mapTypes() in your application. A more "correct" DateSerializer is planned that serializes using the ISO date format. Date objects should be converted to xsd:date (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date) or xsd:timeInstant (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#timeInstant) to be SOAP compliant. The SOAP spec says, "For simple types, SOAP adopts all the types found in the section Built-in datatypes of the XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes", (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383514), but not all have been implemented This is out of date right? It looks like there is already a DateSerializer in soap2_2. If this *is* out of date, who should I email to have this updated? I just used org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.DateSerializer to serialize a date. It seemed to wokr just fine. Is there any reason *not* to use DateSerializer? George Voronoff
