Dear list! I am setting up a web services environment in which I plan to "abuse" some web services just to deliver XML that I can then use for display purposes, for example I plan to consume the Response messages with Cocoon and apply some XSLT to it for displaying.
The XML I return is complex (a tree of nested objects). Therefore I did not use the BeanSerializer because this would have meant I had to provide schema information for all the beans. I instead went for the CastorSerializer. This worked fine so far. But it is using the standard Castor serialization. I have no means to control how my object tree gets serialized exactly. But this is what I liked about Castor. I tried this already in a sandbox (without webservices) and I put together a nice Castor mapping that describes how I want my XML. Obviously I am now trying to bring the two together and I am looking for a hint. It's just that in my server-config.wsdd I can only specify the Factory class which will just go ahead and create a Marshaller. I did not find the hook where I would be able to provide my mapping file, for example as a parameter, to the Mashaller. I would need to find a way to set a parameter in the server-config.wsdd which would be accessible in the CastorSerializerFactory so it can pass it on to the Castor mashaller. Did I overlook anything obvious? I am not yet that familiar with the inner workings of Axis, so maybe one of you can help with a hint. Regards, Torsten
