OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Jay Packard wrote:
> 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?

Again, here is the documentation on unmarshalling
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUserManual

And here is the documentation on marshalling:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUsrManJavaWriteToXML

> 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)?

This is an incredibly basic Java question and not appropriate for this 
list.  If you need to know if Element is serializable go look at the 
Javadoc for it.

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