Hello Chathura,
Thanks for the response! However, I wasn't clear enough. Let me try again.
I am doing some work for a company that models all of their data in XSD.
They use XmlBeans to create Java objects from their xml schema.
On the server (tomcat 5, axis2-0.9) we want to create a SOAP interface
that marshalls the XmlBeans objects between the client/server.
With Axis 1.[1,2] there was no support for XmlBeans objects and you had
to define your server SOAP interfaces like this:
// p is a XmlBean.toString().getBytes()
public void test(byte[] p);
But this loses type-safety and the generated WSDL is completely missing
the XSD used to generate the xmlBeans in the first place. We can deal
with this internally (because we have the XSD) but this is a show
stopper for making interfaces public because the public interfaces must
contain the XSD (within the WSDL) or the client won't know how to talk
to the server properly or validate its own request.
We want to be able to define server interfaces using Axis2 that accept
xmlBeans as parameters like this:
// request is an XmlBean
public void test(RequestDocument request);
Axis2 would then generate the WSDL to correctly contain the XSD.
Since Axis2 is using XmlBeans I was hoping the XmlBean [de]serializers
were already present and this would just work.
IMHO doc/lit SOAP with POJOs modelled from XSD is the best way to
develop web services. I think the XmlBeans XSD->POJO mapping is the best
available, modelling data in XSD is very natural, and XSD validation is
a boon.
I've been confused as to why the Axis developers haven't enabled
XmlBeans support. The BEA folks provide exactly this and I thought they
just made some enhancements to Axis? I feel like I'm misunderstanding
something fundamental wrt xmlBeans support and would love to know what
it is.
Thanks in andvance for any help or enlightening comments.
Cheers.
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