thanks for the tips. i'll give it a go and ask q's on the dev list as Davanum suggested.
On 12/3/05, Chathura Herath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The code generation engine of the axis2 has a the ability to plug in > extensions to it. see > org.apache.axis2.databinding.extensions > The xml beans is one such extension that gets plugged in and compiles > the schema and generate > types.(org.apache.axis2.databinding.extensions.XMLBeansExtension) You > can write a one for jaxb too. > > Right now we have integrated to xmlbeans to the engine(Runtime) > through the stax api. On reception of the SOAP message we get the stax > events of the incoming body of the SOAP message and feed it to > XMLbeans to build the databound object. This is quite straight forward > since our OM exposes a stax API. I guess same would work for jaxb as > well. > Hope this will give you some direction. > Please do query any doubts you have > Thanks > Chathura > > On 12/3/05, Ron Mexico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, if you could point me in the right direction, I'm interested. > > Let me know what I could do to help. > > > > On 12/3/05, Chathura Herath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If we are talking about data binding using jaxb, it can be done > > > without much of a hassel and we had this idea in mind when we did the > > > xml-beans databinding. So the WSDL2Java code generation engine is more > > > than extensible for this. > > > > > > Chathura > > > > > > On 12/3/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ron, > > > > > > > > This is definitely possible in Axis2. Willing to help? there is some > > > > code in the scratch area which we can polish up and update. > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > dims > > > > > > > > On 12/2/05, Ron Mexico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I believe that could do the trick. How, then, would my marshalling > > > > > take > > > > > place? > > > > > I'd basically have to pull apart the whole incoming soap payload only > > > > > to > > > > > begin my marshalling. > > > > > Or is there something I'm missing? > > > > > The reason I'm asking, and even considering introducing axis into our > > > > > current architecture is for testing purposes. It's laborous to test > > > > > our > > > > > application in it's current state. We've hacked together some jsps > > > > > that'll > > > > > allow for form completion, then assembling the XML and finally > > > > > submitting > > > > > it. > > > > > it's quite lame, for lack of a better term. > > > > > > > > > > On 12/2/05, Guy Rixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Suppose you write your own WSDL instead of letting axis generate > > > > > > it. You > > > > > can > > > > > > then include your XSDs in the types section of the WSDL. If you use > > > > > absolute > > > > > > URLs in the schemaLocation attributes of the import statements for > > > > > > teh > > > > > XSDs, > > > > > > then anybody who sees you WSDL can also find the XSDs. Does this > > > > > > suit your > > > > > > purpose? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ron Mexico wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > let me elaborate. right now our process is very elementary. > > > > > > > "consumers" need to have copies of our XSDs. they format their > > > > > > > xml > > > > > > > accordingly, then submit that xml essentially as a string to a > > > > > > > servlet. then our servlet marshals that string which it receives > > > > > > > basically as a request parameter. > > > > > > > i'm looking to make this process a little more mature, so i was > > > > > > > hoping > > > > > > > that Axis would be able to broadcast our XSDs - much like it does > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > a WSDL. is that possible? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I'd just send the String as a parameter to the web service and > > > > > > > >marshal > > > > > that. > > > > > > > >jaxb by its nature automatically validates against the xsd. > > > > > > > >Perhaps I > > > > > > > >misunderstand the question. All you need is the jarred classes > > > > > > > >from the > > > > > xsd > > > > > > > >on the web service side. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >An important point is that Axis2 uses XMLBeans heavily - sort of > > > > > > > >an > > > > > open > > > > > > > >source alternative to jaxb. From what I gather sun's > > > > > > > >implementation of > > > > > JWSDP > > > > > > > >2.0 will be based off of jaxb. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >HTH, > > > > > > > >iksrazal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > we've got an application where clients send us xml formatted to > > > > > > > > match > > > > > > > > the XSD's that we use internally to create our generated > > > > > > > > objects. > > > > > > > > we simply marshall/unmarshall that xml internally. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i'd like to make this more of a web-service. is it possible to > > > > > > > > have > > > > > > > > axis broadcast the XSDs as the wsdl for each service? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > furthermore, is it possible to have axis integrate with jaxb so > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > incoming xml would simply be converted right to the generated > > > > > > > > objects? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Guy Rixon > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Institute of Astronomy Tel: > > > > > +44-1223-337542 > > > > > > Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA Fax: +44-1223-337523 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Chathura Herath > > > http://www.bloglines.com/blog/chathurah > > > > > > > > -- > Chathura Herath > http://www.bloglines.com/blog/chathurah >
