On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:42 -0500, Dan Diephouse wrote: > There is some schema parsing stuff here in the webservices commons: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/webservices/commons/trunk/XmlSchema/ > > It sounds like you might be going a step beyond just parsing things into > a schema oject model though?
Since we're already using the commons schema (above) in Axis2 (for the Axis2 data binding stuff), Tom would you guys be able to contribute to that and help drive that to ultimate success? It doesn't seem to make sense to create a parallel universe. > > It occurs to me that our requirement is probably not unique, and that > > it might be useful for the more message driven approach in Axis2 to > > have richer schema support for type declarations in WSDL definitions. > > Unless anyone knows of a really good existing lightweight Java model > > for schema (I've looked but no luck) that can be glued into WSDL4J's > > Definition model we're going to write one - the purpose being to > > inspect a WSDL file and, for a given operation, provide enough > > information in a friendly and easy to digest form for a dynamic > > invoker to build a compliant request document / parse a response. Note > > that this is _not_ a databinding layer, just type metadata. Actual > > databinding could obviously be driven off it though. Big +1 for using a schema model for introspective execution. Again, please look at commons schema and see whether you can help improve that .. Sanjiva.
