OpenSAML user discussion

[Jay Packard <>]

Hi Chad,

According to 
http://svn.middleware.georgetown.edu/view/java-xmltooling/branches/1.0sig/src/org/opensaml/xml/io/Marshaller.java?revision=118&view=markup&pathrev=126, 
the marshall and unmarshall methods are not static.  Don't I have to use 
a marshalling/unmarshalling factory?

Also, the marshaller returns an org.w3c.dom.Element object.  Can I 
simply cast this to an java.io.Serializable class (which is returned by 
the method in my port type stub)?

Thanks,
Jay

Chad La Joie wrote:
> Jay Packard wrote:
> > SHORT VERSION OF QUESTION: How can I convert from a java.lang.Object 
> > to an object that can be unmarshalled and how can I marshall a 
> > ResponseType object?
>
> 1) By casting it
>
> 2) Using the Marshaller.marshall(XMLObject) method.
>
> Every single XMLObject in the system is created, marshalled, and 
> unmarshalled in the exactly same way.