[Axis2]Data binding API?

[Dennis Sosnoski]

I recently made some changes (going into JiBX RC1) to support using JiBX 
with SOAP. These are primarily designed around what I've found was 
necessary for JibxSoap, but I'm also planning to hook into Axis2 and the 
same requirements are likely to apply there. I know the 0.9 version has 
XmlBeans support in place - has anything been done yet to define a 
general-purpose API usable with other data binding frameworks? I'm 
interested both in runtime support and code generation (so that there's 
a way for Axis to pass off a schema subset to be handled by the data 
binding framework, along with any appropriate customization parameters 
for the data binding code generation, and get back some sort of map from 
types to classes).

I'm also curious if anyone has considered how MTOM is going to work in 
combination with data binding. It seems like there'll have to be some 
way for the data binding framework to pass back information about the 
blobs to be sent as attachments, and to access the attachments when 
unmarshalling. In the case of JiBX I'm planning to add that in 1.1 with 
an internal API that allows JiBX to communicate with whatever runs the 
transport, then supply separate implementations of the transport 
interface for different usages (JibxSoap, Axis2, etc.). That aspect of 
MTOM has always seemed a bad smell to me, but since The Powers That Be 
(AKA the W3C) have decided it's the wave of the future I'll do my best 
to work with it.

 - Dennis