Cory, Theoretically, the answer to your question is yes. But practically when I tried this in the past, Castor mapping approach could not handle the complexities of my data structures. So I use an XML Pull parser to serialize / deserialize my business objects. You can look at my detailed implementation at http://smfw.sourceforge.net/. It is open source - feel free to use it in your projects.
Regards, Naresh -----Original Message----- From: Cory Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: castor & axis & marshalling As a follow up to Anne's post, dated 08/04 11:20:28 -- specifically: "Castor performs translations from xsd types to Java objects." For those of you familiar enough with Castor -- I've a question. Just a disclaimer -- sorry for the Castor slant here -- I'm just looking for someone to say, "yes you can accomplish this" or "no, you can't". Let's suppose I implement my service as a message style service and I'm handed the soap envelope by Axis. Also, let's assume I have a set of classes in my domain that I'd like to flesh out with the data represented in the soap body. My question is whether or not I can use Castor to marshall/unmarshall this data for me given a mapping file or do I have to rely on Castor generated classes/marshalling framework to handle this? For example, if in my <types> I've defined the following: <xsd:complexType name="Person"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="firstName" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="lastName" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="birthDate" type="xsd:date/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> And someone invokes my services and passes me type "Person" -- is there a convenient way via Castor to map it into object type Foo? class Foo { private String fName private String lName private Calendar dateOfBirth public get/setFName public get/setLName public get/setDateOfBirth } Thanks yet again! Cory
