----- Original Message ----- From: "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Question] Betwix & JAXB
> From: "Ivelin Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hi James, > > > > Thanks for the detailed response. > > > > Yes, choice is healthy. > > > > I will hope however that the coices stay limited to 1 or 2 alternatives. > > More than that, it will almost sound like waste of brain. > > > > I am very happy with JXPath and therefore I would think that Betwix is the > > tool I'd use for marshaling in future. > > FWIW I have nothing to do with JXPath at all - thats Dmitri's baby. I work > on Jaxen instead (I did try bring Dmitri to the Jaxen-party but he preferred > to go his own way). > > http://jaxen.org I've looked at Jaxen first but couldn't find built-in JavaBean support, which is what I need most of the time. Java is still my primary language and XML interfaces to the world are being adopted quickly. Tools like JXPath and Castor( maybe Betwix now ) are making my life much easier. > > What I really appreciate about JXPath is that it is quite smart about auto > > handling mapping for various types. > > Though picking a good default mapping is one thing; however there are > various ways to do it and sometimes developers want to specify this > explicitly - thats where betwixt comes in. In many cases all these options would be equally good to me. Rarely do I need to customize, although when it's needed it must be there. > > e.g. for a Map > > Map map = new HashMap(); > map.put( "a", "1234" ); > map.put( "b", "5678" ); > > > how should this look as XML? e.g. > ... > Or Dmitri can probably help here, but I understand that the following form is becoming popular: Map map = myBean.getItem(); map.put( "a", "1234" ); map.put( "b", "5678" ); <item id="a">1234</item> <item id="b">5678</item> which is consistent with arrays: <item id="1">1234</mapName> <item id="2">5678</mapName > And thus the XPath is natural "/mybean/item[@id='a']" > Robert added support for handling of circular references. Right now it > outputs unique IDs and uses HREF attributes to refer to previously > serialized objects. Excelent. I'll try that. I suppose it will unmarshall correctly this markup too? Keep up the good code coming. Ivelin > > James > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
