Hi! I, Sukhitha Prabhath Jayathilaka, throught I would attemp to parcticipate in Google Summer of Code 2009 under the Apache Axis2 project. I have submitted my proposal already on the GSoC student app.
I submitted my proposal on a feature request I found on the Axis2 issue tracker, namely the addition of Generics support for Axis2. I believe I will be able to use my programming abilties gained so far to tackle the task of implementing this feature, as well as to develop my skills greatly through working on the project. In my proposal I have divided the project in to three main parts as follows. 1. Support for POJOs that use Generics : Users should be able to deploy POJOs with generic types in the same way as non-genericesed classes, and at the time of deployment Axis2 should be able to read them and process them, finally creating a valid Axis web service from the class. 2. Support for Schema and WSDL Generation : When the Java class employs Generics, Axis2 should be able to process the generic types using Java Reflection and create the correct Schema element. 3. Runtime message serialization and de-serialization : When a message is received Axis2 should be able to identify the correct generic type using Java Reflection and then de-serialize the XML message into the appropriate genericised bean. I believe I would be able to dedicate about 2-3 hours on a daily basis to working on this project, with more time on weekends. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions regarding this proposal. Thank You! Sukhitha.
