Devs- Don't know if anyone has been following the comments on 1361, but I'd like an opinion before I move anywhere on the issue. The basic scenario is marshalling/unmarshalling a heterogeneous collection using references when primitive wrappers and/or strings (from now on I'll refer to all of these as primitives) can be in the collection (side by side with more complex objects). Marshalling dies with an exception because none of the built-in descriptors for primitives have identities defined, and the built-in descriptors can't be overridden because of code in Marshaller.getClassDescriptor.
I can think of a couple solutions, but I'm not sure I'm crazy about any of them (so feel free to suggest better ideas) 1. Update ClassDescriptors to give some useful identity value 2. Make the Marshaller not use references if the object is a primitive 3. Allow for the overriding of built-in ClassDescriptors with mapping file Any thoughts/comments are appreciated. Thanks, Stephen
