Problems with object serialization.

[Andrew McCready]

I'm using tomcat 4.1.24 and apache soap 2.3.1 (and I
have soap deployed as a webapp), and I'm trying to
write a custom serializer/deserializer. It works fine
on the client side (or at least appears to thanks to
tcptunnel), but I get one of two errors from the
server:

If the class for the deserializer (and the object to
be deserialized and the class that services the
request) is in shared/classes, I get this error:

Deployment error in SOAP service 'urn:TestService':
class name 'org.test.TestSerializer' could not be
resolved as a serializer: null

I assumed this was because it couldn't find the
serializer class in the classpath for some reason, but
it has no problem finding the class that services the
request, which is in the same package (and therefore
same directory).

OTOH, if I put the classes in
webapps/soap/WEB-INF/classes/, I get the following
error:

(on serialization) 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No Serializer
found to serialize a 'org.test.TestDAO' using encoding
style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'.

(on deserialization)  No Deserializer found to
deserialize a 'urn:TestService:data' using encoding
style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'.



??? In both cases, the service is deployed with the
following deployment descriptor:

<isd:service
xmlns:isd="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap/deployment";
id="urn:TestService" >
  <isd:provider type="java"
                scope="Application"
                methods="insertTest selectTest">
    <isd:java class="org.test.DbTest" 
static="false"/>
  </isd:provider>


<isd:faultListener>org.apache.soap.server.DOMFaultListener</isd:faultListener>
 <isd:mappings>
   <isd:map
enncodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding";

     xmlns:x="urn:TestService" 
     qname="x:data"
     javaType="org.test.TestDAO" 
     java2XMLClassName="org.test.TestSerializer" 
     xml2JavaClassName="org.test.TestSerializer" />
 </isd:mappings>
</isd:service>


Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Since the
serializer/deserializer works on the client side, and
since the DbTest class works find with
primitives/strings, I assume the problem is with the
deployment descriptor. 



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