Hi Kevin, I'm not sure if what I'm about to say answers your question or not, but hopefully you might find it useful.
In a current project that we're working on we need to mirror certain classes/data structures on both the server and client. There is no way to get around actually building this structure on both sides, so we did that. But then we extended JSON so that the server-side Java app could serialize and send any complex structure using the classes that we both understand. When the client receives this data it deserializes it automatically into the right structure. We made use of the dynamic class loader stuff. All we really did was add an extra property to every object, @ClassName, which is used during deserialization to create the appropriate class instance. Then using a predefined naming convention we slam the data into the class instances. Good luck on this project. Jobe Makar http://www.electrotank.com http://www.electro-server.com phone: 252-627-8026 mobile: 919-609-0408 fax: 919-882-1121
