apache axis, inheritance and overloading

[paulm rhoades]

i want to pass events from a client to a server via a web service interface such as:

public void accept(Event e);

now Event is actually an interface (or abstract class) with specialisations defined for each concrete event type (e.g. AddUserEvent, UpdateUserEvent, etc..). So, how do i do it. Does SOAP handle inheritance, or if not can i overload the service:

public void accept(AddUserEvent e);
public void accept(UpdateUserEvent e);#

or is there a.n.other approach?

[Ulf Dittmer]

I'm speculating here, but I think that it shouldn't matter to SOAP, because what you're transferring is a black box to it anyway. You will need to sort out the details in your serializer/deserializer (you need that because SOAP does not know anything about your parameter types).