Please look at the addressbook sample for how to use your own serializer/deserializer instead of treating things as beans. The docs give you quite a bit of info on how to write these as well. In short, you can send any type over SOAP. Sanjiva. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janesh Vasudeva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Query > Is there any use of these , and what are other objects we can use except > beans , where we can use these serialization > > Thanks > Janesh > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nirmal Mukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 8:54 PM > Subject: Re: Query > > > > > > Hi, > > > > No, you should not have to do any serialization of your own if you are > > using objects that are beans. > > > > Nirmal. > > > > > > > > "Janesh Vasudeva" > > <jvasudeva@asapsolu To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > tions.com> cc: > > Subject: Query > > 06/23/2001 06:13 AM > > Please respond to > > soap-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When we have BeanSerializer to serialize objects , why do we require to > > create DataSerializer class containing marshall and > > unmarshall methods . Is there any reasons for doing it? > > > > Thanks > > Janesh > > > > > >