xstream - reffence handling in 1.1.2

This is not a bug report, since you give rather no information that allows something to reproduce. Additionally I have the impression that you search help how to use XStream, but that's what the user's list is for, not a bug reporting system. I invite you to ask questions there, but please provide more information about your use case: what you do intend to do, what you already tried, how your objects/XML look like and how you initialize XStream. Thanks.

we are doing normalization of the whole object and inorder to get all the members of the object we are using xstream to get them as xml string and normalizae it and unmarshall it and we will use this object in the bussiness operationsof the services.

String marshal=this.normalize(xStream.toXML(obj));
Object obj1=xStream.fromXML(marshal); //then use this obj1 in my services

and the object after mashalling something looks like the below

<PG>
<pid>1111</pid>

<description>null</description>
<sessionId>xxxxx</sessionId>
<Item>
<eId>1111/1</eId>
<Description>welcome#1</Description>
</Item>

</PG>

after deleting ITEM from PG, if i dsplay still the ITEM is there.
please let me know is there any issue the way im using the xstream

thanks

im initializing like the below

private static XStream xStream=new XStream();

This is not a support forum. Use the user's list. I am not going to answer here anything.