Hi,
To improve the Tuscany databinding framework for simplicity and flexibility,
I come out a list of potential TODOs. Your feedback/ideas/help will be very
welcome.
* Refine/simplify the databinding SPIs (for better extensibility and
consumeablity)
* Make the databinding framework easy to use as a utility in addtion to an
interceptor (Ideally, other projects can leverage this framework without
pulling into the whole tuscany runtime. I think we are very close.)
* Use MIME types to model the databinding ids (for example, application/xml,
application/x-java-serialized-object, image/jpeg)
* Support MIME based binary data types (incuding the xmime extensions in
WSDL/XSD)
* Improve the performance of key transformers (such as JAXB <--> AXIOM, we
could reuse some JAXB code from Axis2 JAXWS support)
* Better support for collective/aggregate data types such as
java.util.Collection
* Support annotations of a java type (for example, an InputStream can be
used to contain different formats of data) to further constrain the data
type (We could use the JAXB annotation for this purpose)
* Find better ways to represent the databinding requirements for bindings
which weakly-typed message structure (no well-defined wire format) such as
JMS Message or JCA Record
* More and better documents
Thanks,
Raymond
