I was looking for a convenient way to quickly store some messages into a file and subsequently reconstitute. I seems a not to uncommon use case to write a utility that does this for backups, etc... In this case, there's often not a desire to unmarshall the message into a java object (often when writing a utility you don't want to have to import all those classes either). In looking at the source quickly, I didn't see anything jump out that would prohibit this but it's possible I missed something.

I wanted to do a quick check here before submitting a Jira improvement. Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks,

-Troy