Hi Jacob, Those replies are indeed very helpful.
Regarding schema design pattern I don't have much idea about various schema design patterns and their advantages. The java application which we are working on communicates with web service which is exposing a wsdl. We plan to use xmlbeans to generate the java artifacts representing the wsdl. The reason I posted that question on inheritance hierarchy was we wanted to figure out how can we get a ready made domain model to work with from the underlying wsdl itself rather than investing time in creating another domain model at our application layer. By transfer objects what i meant to ask was can we get a readymade domain model with the business logic in the form of generated classes or they would be dumb objects (just getter/setter) as it is currently in our case Will study at the links you posted on extension mechanism. Directly accessing the generated classes inside the application code can cause problems when there are changes to the underlying WSDL So one option was too create a set of classes (one per generated xml class). These custom classes will extend the generated xml classes. So we can have business logic in these custom classes and the app code communicates with these custom classes and will not be interacting directly with the xml generated classes. This way the application code will also be shielded from any changes to underlying WSDL. Another option would be too create these set of custom classes and have a mapping with xml generated classes. This involves creating a mapper utility to transfer data from the xml generated classes to their custom counterparts. Sounds a bit more overhead here. Do let me know your viewpoints -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/evaluating-xmlbeans-and-best-practices-tf4440007.html#a12687455 Sent from the Xml Beans - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
