Thanks, Marty. I will probably start experimenting with this in the upcoming week or two. I appreciate you taking the time to answer. Knowing that someone else has taken a similar approach with some success makes me feel better about our prospects. If I learn anything new in my own efforts I will try to share it though this same forum. I really like the approach taken by JiBX compared to some other binding tools I've looked at so I'd like to see it continue to mature. Thanks again.
Bill Bailey Senior Developer / DBA Northland, A Church Distributed On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:11:58 -0600, "Martin Bosak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Bill, > > I'm not a developer either; but have used the xsd2jibx tool. It > generally will work with most schema constructs. A few warnings that I > can remember from using it: > > 1) Be sure to use the same version of the jibx jars that come with it. > I know from experience that if you try to upgrade it yourself it will > fail. > 2) It doesn't quite handle <xsd:choice> elements correctly. You may > have to correct those yourself. > > Overall, it does an acceptable job of generating your classes and a > binding.xml file to start with. It's certainly better that starting > from scratch. > > The best advice is to simply try it & then write some JUnit tests to > make sure you can marshall/unmarshall with the results. BTW, you can > use the latest version of the runtime & binding compiler with the > generated classes. > > Marty > > > Bill Bailey wrote: > > Does anyone know if JiBX developers monitor this list? > > > > Also, in general I'm wondering if anyone has experiences to share in > > terms of level of support for JiBX. Let me start by saying I understand > > that this is an open source project and I am fully appreciative of the > > willingness of others to share the fruit of their efforts. That said, > > the amount of support available simply has to be a criteria for me in > > deciding whether to use a product and in the week or so I've been on > > this mailing list, I've seen only questions. I think I've only seen one > > person actually answer a question and that makes me a little nervous > > when we're about to undertake a large effort with JiBX as one of the key > > pieces. > > > > I would have thought my question would be a no-brainer for someone on > > the dev team to answer even if the answer is just "I don't know", but I > > haven't seen any response at all. > > > > Bill Bailey > > > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:09:59 -0500, "Bill Bailey" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I noticed several references to newer versions on the web site, > >> including 1.2 and 2.0. It appears that the first beta version of 1.2 was > >> initially planned for Jan 2007, but since it doesn't yet appear for > >> download I am guessing this didn't happen per the original schedule. > >> There is reference to version 2.0 being available initially in Apr 2007, > >> but no further updates that I could find. > >> > >> Can someone provide an update regarding when each of these releases is > >> expected to be available? > >> > >> In particular, I'm interested in some of the features that allow code > >> and binding mapping generation from an XML Schema. We are planning to > >> use Spring Web Services which follows a contract first approach, > >> beginning with the XML Schema. Although I have found the documentation > >> on the binding mappings quite good, we are a small shop (less than 3 > >> full time developers) and any tools that can make us more productive > >> (i.e. less hand written code) is a good thing. I like the concept of > >> using the XML Schema to initially generate the Java code and mapping, > >> but still having the ability to modify both the XML Schema and Java code > >> as needed as the design evolves, but it appears the separate beta > >> versions of these tools may not be ready for prime time. Any comments on > >> what the approach might be in the interim? Until the full set of tools > >> is available in 1.2 or 2.0? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> Bill Bailey > >> Senior Developer / DBA > >> Northland, A Church Distributed > >> ------------------------------ > >> -- Bill Bailey -- > >> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > >> ------------------------------ > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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