Need help creating a custom type mapping

[Mike Kopack]

Hey guys,   Ok, I'm pretty lost. I keep looking at vartious documentation but either they seem to leave out important pieces of the puzzle or they're not doing things in the same way I am.   First of all, I'm writing a client/server app using Apache SOAP (latest version) and Java. I'm utilizing the SOAP-RPC method calling proceedures.   So, on my client side I have something that looks like this:   public String login(SecurityAssertion sa, String clienttype)  {   String returnValue  = null;   try   {    Call call                = new Call();    call.setTargetObjectURI(targetObjectURI);    call.setMethodName("login");    call.setEncodingStyleURI(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC);      Vector v                 = new Vector(2);    v.addElement(new Parameter("sa", SecurityAssertion.class, sa, null));    v.addElement(new Parameter("clienttype", String.class, clienttype, null));    call.setParams(v);    Response r               = call.invoke(url, "");    if (!r.generatedFault())    {     Parameter returnParameter  = r.getReturnValue();     returnValue = returnParameter.getValue();    }    else    {     System.out.println("Fault encountered : " + r.getFault().getFaultString());    }   }   catch (Exception e)   {    e.printStackTrace();   }   return (String) returnValue;  }       What I can't seem to figure out is how to create a mapping for how that "SecurityAssertion" class should be encoded, etc.  I understand that there is a server side and a client side mechanism that must be done, but I can't seem to find good CLEAR documentation with a complete step by step example on how to do this. I've currently got the SecurityAssertion class setup up as a Javabean, but I'm probably going to have to make it not one in the future, so some help in how to build the custom serializer/deserializer would be helpful as well.   Thanks!   --Mike