public interface Serializer extends java.io.Serializable {
// Public Instance Methods
public abstract String getMechanismType( );
}
A Serializer is a class that can convert from a
Java object or primitive into a corresponding XML representation. The
serialization process might result in a stream of characters that
form an XML tag with associated attributes and text, or a fragment of
a DOM model. The JAX-RPC specification does not give a list of
supported output types (which it refers to as mechanism types), but
the reference implementation supports the creation of an XML output
stream. The getMechanismType( ) method returns an
identifier for the mechanism that the serializer supports.
The Serializer interface does not actually contain
a method that causes serialization to occur. The JAX-RPC 1.0
specification does not attempt to create a standard or portable
serialization mechanism and therefore does not specify the means by
which serialization is actually performed. The reference
implementation uses private serialization classes that implement the
Serializer interface, and uses methods that are
not part of the public API to invoke them.
