In the application I am writing, I have created a custom generator that understands JaxB based objects, thus providing the marshalling/unmarshalling mechanism for XML. In my circumstance, each transport object is a JAXB component used against both presentation transformation and communication between the action and the REST-based service.
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 03:21 PM, Yatin Shah wrote: > This is nice summary for new users like myself. Thanks. > > Should the generator be custom coded or are there any > cocoon pre-built generators which would create XML > from request attributes & transport objects? > > I'm thinking of the case where transport object is an object > representation of a hierchical database data. > Are there any open source products which can be used > here to do the transformation from object/relational to XML? > > Thanks > -Yatin > > Bryan Zarnett wrote: > >> Thanks for everyone's input on the XML Generation. Taking some of >> those comments and going through the documentation, I came down with >> the following simple (and hopefully close to correct) conclusions. >> The idea here is that Cocoon would be used in a web application with >> Cocoon responsible for presentation and user navigation and a web >> service using REST responsible for business rules. >> >> * The user sends down an Action Name which defines the operational >> request the user wishes to invoke. This action name is used in the >> site map to determine the appropriate action to apply. >> >> * The action acts as a controller, processing user input and invoking >> one or more distributed business services (REST, EJB, etc.) that >> return back one or more transport objects. The action aggregates the >> transport objects and places them into request attributes. >> >> * The generator takes the request objects and converts them to XML, >> passing the information onto a transformer. >> >> Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Please check that your question has not already been answered in the >> FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > Yatin Shah, President mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kripa Inc. http://www.kripa.com > Dayton, New Jersey USA phone: 732.329.8303 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Developers of real time event driven distributed DB applications > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
