custom marshaller and SoapSerializationEnvelope

Hi,

I'm building a custom marshaller for a certain complex type, very similar to a Map.
So I derived my implementation from MarshalHashtable.java.

My problem is that I need to use the method "SoapSerializationEnvelope.read(XmlPullParser parser, Object owner, int index, String namespace, String name, PropertyInfo expected)".
As this method is declared as "protected", I cannot use it from my own package/class.

Am I doing wrong or should this method be declared as public ?

Regards,
Sebastien.