> The XMI serializers depend on an XMI jar from IBM. The ant build file allows > Apache SOAP to > be built without that jar, but Apache SOAP will then not have the XMI > serializer classes as > part of it. This code is a way to handle the absence of those classes at run > time when using > a version of Apache SOAP built that way.
Thanks. That makes sense. I wasn't thinking about the conditional builds, and both those classes are present in my (standard) Apache SOAP build. I guess they would fail at runtime without the IBM JAR on the classpath (didn't try that).
