See the SOAP 1.2 spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-20010709. As stated towards the end of Section 5.1:
"9. A NULL value or a default value MAY be represented by omission of the accessor element. A NULL value MAY also be indicated by an accessor element containing the attribute xsi:null with value '1' or possibly other application-dependent attributes and values." So the treatment of 'null' is left up to the implementation, since "MAY" indicates that these are only suggestions. I believe that Apache SOAP 2.2 takes the 'xsi:null' approach. -Chris John Mani wrote: > > Java APIs that return Java objects sometimes return null to signify certain > conditions (like lack of data) > Does SOAP allow for such scenarios - i.e., a null representation of an > object ? > > If so, does Apache SOAP allow this ? > > thanx > -john
