I don't have any objections... I just didn't have time to do it before. Ruel had created a Maven build for jboss-serialization when he was working on maven scripts. It should be in good shape but I haven't tested it recently. .. talking about this new xml output stream... you are considering using jboss-serialization to serialize objects into XML format? Did I understand that correctly? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3999650#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...