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Re: javax.ws.xml.Holder not serializable

by Kurt T Stam-4 :: Rate this Message:

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Thx for the backgroud info Dan :(

Isn't it great, the also decided to make the class 'final'? So I can't
even make a wrapper.

I've send a request to jsr-224-public@.... Hoping for the best..

--Kurt


Daniel Kulp wrote:

> On Tue June 30 2009 11:38:35 am Kurt T Stam wrote:
>  
>> Thanks for going to test this Jarek.
>>
>> It sounds like I would need to being this up with JCP-224 then.
>>    
>
> I'm pretty sure you won't like the answer.   :-)
>
> Basically, the jcp224/jaxws folks (and the jaxb folks), at one point long ago,
> specifically decided against making things "Serializable" since the
> Serializable symantics are not honored by the XML serialization.   (example:
> field marks transient would still be written to XML)
>
> Anyway, for the most part, it was a conscious decision.   While that decision
> may or may not apply to the Holder objects, it wouldn't surprise me at all if
> they say something along those lines.
>
> In anycase, it's definitely not something that would change for JAX-WS
> 2.0/2.1/2.2 so you would be looking at something at LEAST a year away,
> probably more, which probably doesn't help you now.
>
> Dan
>
>
>  
>> --Kurt
>>
>> Jarek Gawor wrote:
>>    
>>> Kurt,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure that's what the spec mandates. I can test this out to
>>> see if it breaks the TCK signature tests but even if it doesn't you
>>> might still run into that problem on Java 6 or later since the
>>> javax.xml.ws API are now provided by the JVM. However, I think you
>>> could override these JVM API by placing the Geronimo spec jar into the
>>> JVM's lib/endorsed directory.
>>>
>>> I'll test this out and let you know.
>>>
>>> Jarek
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Kurt T Stam<kurt.stam@...> wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> On the jUDDI project one of our APIs uses the javax.ws.xml.Holder class
>>>> (which contains jUDDI specific data classes). We have a requirement to
>>>> send the entire Holder class over RMI, but Holder is not Serializable. I
>>>> think this is a short coming of the implementation.
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/specs/trunk/geronimo-jaxws_2.2_
>>>> spec/src/main/java/javax/xml/ws/Holder.java
>>>>
>>>> If you agree can this be fixed? Or do you believe that the spec dictates
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>>
>>>> --Kurt
>>>>
>>>> kstam at apache.org
>>>>        
>
>  

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