Re: [Axis2] Databinding structuring proposal

[Dennis Sosnoski]

Chuck Williams wrote:

"Ajith Ranabahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/29/2006 
07:37:48 AM:

I'm not familiar with the velocity or freemarker template languages
but In any case I guess we'll be introducing another dependancy! Also
if  we special case the templating language, it makes things harder
for the people who would need to tweak the code generator.
 


As someone who's tweaked the code generator to add support for choice 
particles, recursive data types, etc., I'd like to second Ajith's 
point.  Xsl is a broadly known syntax that works well for the 
generation of final Java code.  Having the code generator structured 
as it is now, creating a POJO representation of the schema, 
transforming that into a DOM, and then using xsl to transform the DOM 
into Java classes, is clean, easy to understand, and quite flexible.

I'm somewhat less thrilled by the use of XSLT for code generation, but 
passing data in XML is certainly a plus. Overall I found the code 
generation structure very flexible and easy to extend. I didn't find any 
documentation of the actual XML formats, though, so I added debug 
logging of the XML documents used for code generation in 
MultiLanguageClientEmitter to simplify understanding the existing XSLTs.

 - Dennis