Using business objects instead of XML

[Andre Juffer]

Dear List,
I am trying to insert a domain object into the pipiline with control 
flow following a suggestion given earlier on this list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/users@cocoon.apache.org/msg23293.html
Suppose, I return some object from a domain class instance, like
var domainObject = com.foo.myClass.doSomething();
The domainObject has all the getters available, e.g. getName(), etc, so 
it acts like a regular bean.

Now, I would like insert this object in the pipeline with
cocoon.sendPage ("page", domainObject);
In the sitemap, I have
<map:match pattern="page">
  <map:generate src="module:flow-attr:domainObject" />
  <map:serialize type="xml" />
</map:match>
(This is just to see how it looks like.)
The result of all this is an error of the form:
org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception during source 
resolving.: org.apache.excalibur.source.SourceException: The attribute: 
domainObject is empty

This looks obvious to me, since it is probably not clear that the 
domainObject in facts represents some class, defined in com.foo.myClass. 
So, I tried to define the DomainObject class in JavaScripy, like

function DomainObject()
{
}
DomainObject.prototype.name;
and populate the object manually before calling cocoon.sendPage. The 
result is however the same.

I am using cocoon 2.1.7.
Could anyone point out in some detail how exactly I should do this.
Thanks,
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