weblogic soap client problem with vector of vectors

[William Miller]

I am using weblogic 8.1 with a soap service deployed as a stateless
session bean

the bean has a soap service method that returns a vector which has
vectors as its elements.

When the service returns the vector to the client, The elements of the vector are
not vectors anymore but instead type object[] (object arrays).

same thing for ArrayList
has anyone seen this behavior as well ?

I am worried when the code is deployed to a different webservice container
that the Vector returned may instaed then have vectors again
Thanks
Bill

[Rr Kumaran]

For your web services to interropable it is suggested not to use language specific collections and so better go with arrays that are widely support across heterogeneous systems.