Array serialization

[Guillaume Sauthier]

Hi all
I've found something weird in Array serialization :
We have a Bean that hold an array of something (here its an array of 
Book), it provides methods to access its content (may be a getter or 
indexed getter)

And I see that the serilaized message looks different if we use indexed 
getter or direct getter !!

Here are the traces :
#1:
without indexed methods :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
                                  
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
                                  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
 <soapenv:Body>
  <echoInOutBookArray xmlns="">
   <varBook xsi:type="ns1:ArrayOfBook" 
xmlns:ns1="http://holdertest.org/xsd";>
    <arrayOfBook>
     <item xsi:type="ns1:Book">
      <author xsi:type="xsd:string">author0</author>
      <isbn xsi:type="xsd:int">0</isbn>
      <title xsi:type="xsd:string">title0</title>
     </item>
     <item xsi:type="ns1:Book">
      <author xsi:type="xsd:string">author1</author>
      <isbn xsi:type="xsd:int">1</isbn>
      <title xsi:type="xsd:string">title1</title>
     </item>
    </arrayOfBook>
   </varBook>
  </echoInOutBookArray>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

#2:
with indexed methods :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<soapenv:Body>
 <echoInOutBookArray xmlns="">
  <varBook xsi:type="ns1:ArrayOfBook" 
xmlns:ns1="http://holdertest.org/xsd";>
   <arrayOfBook xsi:type="ns1:Book">
    <author xsi:type="xsd:string">author0</author>
    <isbn xsi:type="xsd:int">0</isbn>
    <title xsi:type="xsd:string">title0</title>
   </arrayOfBook>
   <arrayOfBook xsi:type="ns1:Book">
    <author xsi:type="xsd:string">author1</author>
    <isbn xsi:type="xsd:int">1</isbn>
    <title xsi:type="xsd:string">title1</title>
   </arrayOfBook>
  </varBook>
 </echoInOutBookArray>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Is this a normal behavior ? I was expecting Axis to always write a 
SOAPMessage as #2 !
More, we are in document/literal and #1 looks like a soap encoded array 
(using <item>).

If someone can give me an explanation, I'll be very happy :)
PS : Just try to uncomment the index getter/setter in 
test.holders.ArrayOfBook, you'll see the differences.
Note : the test is not failing when we uncomment these methods, that's 
just the message format ...

Regards
Guillaume