Patch: Support for serializable objects

[Jochen Wiedmann]

Hi,
at http://www.apache.org/~jochen/patches you find an updated patch file, 
which now includes support for instances of Serializable. Such instances are 
converted into byte arrays, gzip'ed and transmitted as base 64 arrays. See 
below for a full description of the patch.

Jochen

Apache XmlRpc patch
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This is a patch file for Apache XmlRpc, as of 20-Jun-2004. It is available from
http://ws.apache.org/~jochen/patches/ and includes the following changes:
1.) Uses a SAX 2 parser, rather than MinML or another SAX 1 parser. See
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=875
2.) Supports null values by setting 
XmlRpcClient.isSupportingTypeExtensions(true)
    and XmlRpcServer.isSupportingTypeExtensions(true). See

http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=908
3.) Replaced the depracated com.sun.net.ssl classes with javax.net.ssl.
    See 
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=888

4.) Uses a random, free server port for the test suite, rather than the fixed
    ports 8081, etc. See
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=901 

5.) Supports byte, short, long, and float by enabling type extensions. Enabling
    these extensions works as in 2.)
6.) Patch for reduced memory use, see
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xmlrpc-dev&m=108984675831883&w=2
7.) Supports instances of java.io.Serializable by enabling type extensions. 
Serializable
    objects are converted into a byte array, gzipped, and base64 encoded. See
    2.) for how to enable type extensions.