soap serialization (newbie?)

[m faruqui]

Hi
How do I inform clients about the serialization technique my SOAP server can understand. One way could be to use WSDL and mention a Java class for serialization and one for deserialization, I think. This though, does not seem general enough. How would clients download the classes? What if the clients are not Java clients at all. In that case how can I de-serialize the client request parameters?
Thanks and regards
M Faruqui

[Pho Tek]

The whole point of Web Services is to achieve interoperability.
You cannot think solely in terms of java-java endpoints.

[m faruqui]

That is what I dont get
The call parameters have to be converted to XML. There are many ways of doing that. The big question - how do I tell clients what technique they should use to convert parameters to XML? And how to ensure that they will be able to interpret the XML response that the server sends.
Thanks

[Andy Rodriguez]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-20010709/#_Toc478383512 http://xml.apache.org/soap/faq/#faq_topic_serialization

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[Ragu Sivaraman]

Originally posted by m faruqui:

That is what I dont get
The call parameters have to be converted to XML. There are many ways of doing that. The big question - how do I tell clients what technique they should use to convert parameters to XML? And how to ensure that they will be able to interpret the XML response that the server sends.
Thanks

It is my understanding you stick to the SOAP standards and the encoding over the wire, there by the client who picks up your services will use they own way or implementation to get the message from the back-end webservices..
Currently, there are lots of interoperability issues that are on-going betn java and .net world..
http://www.xmethods.net/ilab/ilab.html
Ragu