It will de-serialize them, but not serialize them. Cheers Simon
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:16:46 +0200, in soap you wrote: >Hi all , >First question: does apache soap handles circular refs? > >why do I ask this. Because I have the following situation: > >class car holds a ref to an order. >The order holds a ref to the car (1 to 1 relationship) > >when the apache soap tryes to serialize them it seems to cal car.getorder, >order.getcar, car.getorder... and so on. > >And finally I get a NUllPoiinterException somewhere inside the >SOAPFaultRouter. > >Please enlight me with this, because it seems pretty weird . > >Thanks >dovle