JAXB is needed for JAXRPC 2.0 implementation, which in turn will be needed in our future J2EE App Server project Geronimo.
-- dims --- Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > > Ted Leung wrote: > > > > > >>>2. Does xml.apache.org have plans to develop a JAXB implementation? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>Not directly, although it's likely that XMLBeans will become JSR-31 > >>compliant. > > > > > > As a side note, one could use JaxMe from within XMLBeans, saving a lot > > of work. > > > > XMLBeans and JaxMe are both layered applications. XMLBeans has more layers, > > but both share a layer for parsing a schema syntactically, a layer for > > building the logical schema structure from the syntax layers result and, > > finally, a source generation layer. > > > > Combining JaxMe's source generator and XMLBeans (very powerfull) schema > > parser is not straightforward: The XMLBeans parser requires extensions. > > But that step is required, as these extensions are specified by JAXB. > > For example JAXB requires to know, given an arbitrary element, the > > outermost syntactical schema with the elements namespace as target > > namespace - an idea completely unknown to XML Schema. > > > > Likewise JaxMe is not yet ready for accepting a schema from other sources > > than its own parser. (This will change anyways, to generate classes from > > Java Beans or relational database schemas.) > > Please excuse my ignorance, but what differentiates these technologies > from something like Betwixt <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/>? > > I'm currently -0 on this VOTE. > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
