I have a facade that I want to open up as a webservice and one of the methods in the facade returns a rather complex bean. (It is an Order object which contains collections of SubOrders and OrderItems and so on) I use the Java2WSDL application and generate a wsdl based off of this facade. Then I take the wsdl and use the WSDL2Java tool which builds all the server code as well as regenerates my beans into soap friendly form. This leaves me with essentially two sets of the same beans in different form.

Now, in order for this system to work, I would have to implement a translation layer to make new soap friendly beans out of my normal beans and vice versa. This method doesn't seem right, so I've been looking at the BeanSerializer. I am guessing that the BeanSerializer would allow me to use my normal beans with axis, and have them serialized to the soap friendly version on the fly. So, my first question, is what I am saying correct?

My second question is that I cannot find any documentation on serializing. The user guide has an incomplete section on this and the encoding example is somewhat daunting for an axis newbie. I am sorta in a cloudy position on what I should be doing, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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