This demo shows how to write a custom serializer and deserializer for the document/literal style.

For example, if you have written a Java service returning a java.lang.Long object, that object can represent either a numerical value or a <null>. There are some languages (such as C#) which may have a problem deserializing a <null> value into long data type.

For purposes of this demo, we assume that we have this same problem in a Java service. The Long object will be represented on the client side as a structure (which can be <null>) with the member: public long value.

To create the demo, the following steps were performed:

Firstly, an XML Schema structure was created for the LongObject object (src/LongObject.xsd).

Secondly, the custom serializer and deserializer were created for the LongObject object (src/demo/advanced/longobject/*.java).

Finally, using the deployment descriptor (src/serialization_package.xml), the LongObject serialization package is created and is deployed only on the server.

The code for the service doesn't need to be changed in any way. Instead, the generated WSDL for the service endpoint will present java.lang.Long as a LongObject. Thus client sees the structure and works with it appropriately.

	Note
	This demo works for the document/literal style only. For RPC/encoded style serialization view the MessageFormat demo.

In addition to the files described in Files and Directories, this demo contains:

You can run the demo using the "run.sh" (for UNIX) or "run.bat" (for Windows) scripts. Running the script without arguments prints out a help message on screen.

This demo can only be run using Persistent Deployment.