complex array return types as xml

[Ravi Krishnamurthy]

Hello: I have a webservice that returns a complex array like public UserJavaClass[] getUserJavaClassList(){ } In order not to define the compelx type object for dynamic invocation, I get the xml output. So I define the serializer/deserializer for the complex type type call.registerTypeMapping(org.w3c.dom.Element.class,                                 xmlQName,                                 ElementSerializerFactory.class,                                 ElementDeserializerFactory.class); But on deserialization I get the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad types (class [Ljava.lang.Object; -> interface org.w3c.dom.Element)     at org.apache.axis.message.RPCHandler.onStartChild(RPCHandler.java:286)     at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startElement(DeserializationContext.java:1035)     at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:165)     at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:1141)     at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:236)     at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:384)     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2448)     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2347)     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1804) If the return value is just UserJavaClass not an array of that, I can get the xml string properly. Any pointers will be very helpful. I'm using axis 1.2.1 Thanks, Ravi