dilemma and doubt: XFire or Spring-WS

[CorbaTheGeek]

tell me, do you now a friendly tool to create xsd from xml?, spring in action 2nd edition talk about trang, maybe you or other member know other better tool

I've been using Altova's XMLSPY (a commercial product) which is a Swiss Army knife of XML editors. Among many other features, it can generate XSD and WSDL from sample XML files, assuming that you've accurately reflected any repeating elements in your sample. It costs $$. I was lucky enough to win a free copy at a conference (call me cheap), but you can download a 30-day trial for free and give it a spin:

http://www.download.com/Altova-XMLSp...-10743625.html

[dr_pompeii]

Hi CorbaTheGeek

thanks for the reply and the link

but you can download a 30-day trial for free

i will check it , the sad is that the installer is a ugly .exe, i will see if wine in linux can help me


regards

[CorbaTheGeek]

XMLSpy apparently works under Linux/Wine:

http://www.altova.com/support_platform_linux.html

[dr_pompeii]

thanks for the link friend

i hope that the documentation be useful

regards

[RayKrueger]

In the investigations I've been doing for my project, I've come to the following conclusions...

Jaxb2 is faaar better than Jaxb1. Avoid Jaxb1 at all costs.

Jaxb2, in regards to Web Service projects, is best used from a Schema First approach. Design your XSD, use the xjc2 ant task to generate the Annotated java code.

Also, when it comes to the OXM stuff in Spring-WS, I subclassed the AbstractMarshallingPayloadEndpoint to make our endpoints a little simpler. The idea being that we would have many endpoints, each with their own marshaller.

As this is a Java5 project (using jaxb2 annotations and such) the "AbstractJaxb2MarshallingPayloadEndpoint uses generics as well.

public abstract class AbstractJaxb2MarshallingEndpoint<RQ, RS> extends AbstractMarshallingPayloadEndpoint {

    protected AbstractJaxb2MarshallingEndpoint(Class... classesToBeBound) {
        Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller = buildMarshaller(classesToBeBound);
        setMarshaller(marshaller);
        setUnmarshaller(marshaller);
    }

    private Jaxb2Marshaller buildMarshaller(Class... classesToBeBound) {
        Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller = new Jaxb2Marshaller();
        marshaller.setClassesToBeBound(classesToBeBound);
        initializeMarshaller(marshaller);
        try {
            marshaller.afterPropertiesSet();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to initialize Jaxb2Marshaller", e);
        }
        return marshaller;
    }

    protected void initializeMarshaller(Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller) {
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    protected final Object invokeInternal(Object object) throws Exception {
        return invokeEndpoint((RQ) object);
    }

    protected abstract RS invokeEndpoint(RQ request) throws Exception;
}

Our final endpoint looks like this then...

public class CurrencyExchangeEndpoint extends AbstractJaxb2MarshallingEndpoint<ExchangeRequest, ExchangeResponse> {

    private final CurrencyExchangeProcessor currencyExchangeProcessor;

    public CurrencyExchangeEndpoint(CurrencyExchangeProcessor currencyExchangeProcessor) {
        super(ExchangeRequest.class, ExchangeResponse.class);
        this.currencyExchangeProcessor = currencyExchangeProcessor;
    }

    protected ExchangeResponse invokeEndpoint(ExchangeRequest request) throws Exception {
        return currencyExchangeProcessor.execute(request);
    }

}

[dr_pompeii]

Hello RayKrueger

thanks so much by your reply

Jaxb2 is faaar better than Jaxb1. Avoid Jaxb1 at all costs.

oh thanks, second advice to favor for jaxb2

Jaxb2, in regards to Web Service projects, is best used from a Schema First approach. Design your XSD, use the xjc2 ant task to generate the Annotated java code.

nice

Also, when it comes to the OXM stuff in Spring-WS, I subclassed the AbstractMarshallingPayloadEndpoint to make our endpoints a little simpler. The idea being that we would have many endpoints, each with their own marshaller.

As this is a Java5 project (using jaxb2 annotations and such) the "AbstractJaxb2MarshallingPayloadEndpoint uses generics as well

thanks for this suggestion

i appreciate

sadly i dont understand your code yet, i am sitll rookie in this painful area of WS

again thanks!