Hi.

I'm experiencing some strange behaviour with null arrays in my web service. I'm 
using JBoss 4.0.3.

When I create an array with one null item in it, it gets serialized to a SOAP 
message as the following:

<widgets xsi:nil="1"/>

But also whenever I set the array to null, it gets serialized as the following:

<widgets xsi:nil="1"/>

However, if I create an empty array it doesn't get serialized at all.

This seems a little strange to to me. Why would a null array be given the same 
meaning as an array with one null value in it? The behaviour for the empty 
array seems to be what I'd expect for a null array -- the array isn't 
serialized at all.

The problem I have is that my Axis client interprets <widgets xsi:nil="1"/> as 
an array with one null value in it (though this could possibly be a 
mis-interpretation on its part), which is pretty nasty for people coding 
against my client library to have to deal with.

Is there anything I can do about this? I'm aware that there's a lot of 
ambiguity surrounding arrays in SOAP, but this behaviour does seem a little odd 
to me.

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