Good news. I am experimenting with the new JAXB support, but starting from a provided XML Schema document. I've come across one simple suggestion, which is to take the @MemberOrder#sequence ordering of the ViewModel instead from the @XmlType#propOrder sequence ordering generated by JAXB.
Irrespective of that small limitation, now I assume you can take an external schema, generate Java classes, add some @PersistenceCapable annotations for data persistence and bingo you have an simple data-management application. Essentially what I was dreaming of some months back :) Well almost, one other thing I realise now is that some of the constraints that you can specificy in your XML Schema are not translated to Java, so you still have to specify the original schema file when marshalling from Java to XML to impose those constraints (e.g min or max length of xs:string types). Thanks Apache Isis team. On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk> wrote: > The Apache Isis team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Isis > v1.11.0. > > The main focus for this release is on the REST API and on view models using > JAXB: > > * the Restful Objects viewer now supports simplified representations > intended to make it easier to write custom Javascript (and other) clients > that consume the REST API; these are obtained using the HTTP Accept header. > There is also support for Swagger spec files so that the REST API can be > more easily explored and tested. Separately, the x-ro-follow-links > capability for RO spec representations is now supported. > > * JAXB-annotated classes are now recognised as view models; these also > enable the contents collections to be part of the view model’s state > (previously only view model properties were recognised). The new > UrlEncodingService allows long URLs (for view models) to be converted into > shorter URLs; this also allows the URL to optionally be encrypted. > > * The release also includes improved control for domain events (these can > now be suppressed if required) , and a new category of UI events (so that > titles, icons and CSS classes can be provided by event bus subscribers). > > Full release notes are available on the Apache Isis website at [1]. Please > also read the migration notes [2]. > > You can access this release directly from the Maven central repo [3], or > download the release and build it from > source [4]. > > Enjoy! > > --The Apache Isis team > > [1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.11.0 > [2] > > http://isis.apache.org/migration-notes.html#_migration-notes_1.10.0-to-1.11.0 > [3] http://search.maven.org > [4] http://isis.apache.org/downloads.html >