Index: src/org/apache/axis/encoding/ser/BeanSerializerFactory.java
===================================================================
--- src/org/apache/axis/encoding/ser/BeanSerializerFactory_old.java	2007-03-28 08:29:06.419100000 -0500
+++ src/org/apache/axis/encoding/ser/BeanSerializerFactory.java	2007-03-28 08:50:58.348203600 -0500
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package org.apache.axis.encoding.ser;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
 import org.apache.axis.Constants;
@@ -86,42 +85,24 @@
 
         TypeDesc td = new TypeDesc(c, true);
         td.setXmlType(new QName(uri, type));
-
-        Method[] methods = c.getMethods();
-        for (int i = 0; i < methods.length; i++) {
-            Class declaringClass = methods[i].getDeclaringClass();
-            String name = methods[i].getName();
-
-            // check if we found a valid "bean method", and then add it to the
-            // collection.
-            //we only look for "get" not "set" because of java beans get/set
-            // model
-            if (!declaringClass.equals(Object.class) && name.length() > 3
-                    && (name.startsWith("get"))) {
-
-                StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
-                // append the "raw" name
-                buf.append(name);
-                // remove the get/set prefix
-                buf.delete(0, 3);
-                // make sure first char is lowercase
-                buf.replace(0, 1, buf.substring(0, 1).toLowerCase());
-                
-                ElementDesc elemField = new ElementDesc();
-                elemField.setFieldName(buf.toString());
-                String declURI = convertToURI(methods[i].getDeclaringClass());
-                elemField.setXmlName(new QName(declURI, buf.toString()));
-                elemField.setNillable(true);
-
-                if (methods[i].getReturnType().isArray()) {
-                    QName itemQName = new QName(Constants.QNAME_LITERAL_ITEM
-                            .getNamespaceURI(), Constants.QNAME_LITERAL_ITEM
-                            .getLocalPart());
-                    elemField.setItemQName(itemQName);
-                }
-
-                td.addFieldDesc(elemField);
+        
+        BeanPropertyDescriptor[] propertyDescriptors = BeanUtils.getPd(c);
+		for(int i = 0; i < propertyDescriptors.length; i++) {
+			BeanPropertyDescriptor p = propertyDescriptors[i];
+			String propertyName = p.getName();
+			ElementDesc elemField = new ElementDesc();
+			elemField.setFieldName(propertyName);
+			String declURI = convertToURI(p.getDeclaringClass());
+			elemField.setXmlName(new QName(declURI, propertyName));
+			elemField.setNillable(true);
+			if(p.isArray()) {
+                QName itemQName = new QName(Constants.QNAME_LITERAL_ITEM
+                        .getNamespaceURI(), Constants.QNAME_LITERAL_ITEM
+                        .getLocalPart());
+                elemField.setItemQName(itemQName);
             }
+
+            td.addFieldDesc(elemField);
         }
 
         if (td != null && c != null) {
Index: src/org/apache/axis/encoding/SerializationContext
===================================================================
--- src/org/apache/axis/encoding/SerializationContext_old.java	2007-03-28 08:47:57.771234300 -0500
+++ src/org/apache/axis/encoding/SerializationContext.java	2007-03-28 08:46:20.834354700 -0500
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@
                 
                 //Make sure arrays "item" tag is given a correct namespace
                 //only tested using document/literal wrapped
-                if (elemQName.getNamespaceURI() == "") {
+                if ("".equals(elemQName.getNamespaceURI())) {
                     elemQName = new QName(this.nsStack.getNamespaceURI(""),
                             elemQName.getLocalPart());
                 }
Index: src/org/apache/axis/utils/BeanPropertyDescriptor
===================================================================
--- src/org/apache/axis/utils/BeanPropertyDescriptor_old.java	2007-03-28 08:49:37.489346100 -0500
+++ src/org/apache/axis/utils/BeanPropertyDescriptor.java	2007-03-28 08:41:06.242618100 -0500
@@ -237,4 +237,19 @@
     public Class getActualType() {
         return myPD.getPropertyType();
     }
+    
+    
+    public Class getDeclaringClass() {
+		Method readMethod = myPD.getReadMethod();
+		if(readMethod != null) {
+			return readMethod.getDeclaringClass();
+		} else {
+			Method writeMethod = myPD.getWriteMethod();
+			if(writeMethod != null) {
+				return writeMethod.getDeclaringClass();
+			} else {
+				return null;
+			}
+		}
+	}
 }
Index: src/org/apache/axis/utils/FieldPropertyDescriptor
===================================================================
--- src/org/apache/axis/utils/FieldPropertyDescriptor_old.java	2007-03-28 08:48:41.161581600 -0500
+++ src/org/apache/axis/utils/FieldPropertyDescriptor.java	2007-03-28 08:41:34.554936900 -0500
@@ -150,4 +150,9 @@
     public Field getField() {
         return field;
     }
+    
+    
+    public Class getDeclaringClass() {
+    	return field.getDeclaringClass();
+    }
 }