Hi Anne, What do you mean by "send serialized XML" vs. "encoded XML string" ? Isn't it possible if i put a TCP/IP sniffer in the middle of the client <-> server , to see the SOAP messages in terms of XML ?
Angel On 1/10/07, Anne Thomas Manes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Neither Axis nor Axis2 send or receive POJOs. As with any web services platform, they send and receive XML messages. But what they can do is automatically map the XML messages to POJOs so that the application can work with Java objects rather than XML. But even if you elect to work with POJOs, there is no requirement for the client and server to share the same class definitions. The only thing that needs to be shared is the WSDL definition. Axis and Axis2 support POJO mapping using Java/XML binding frameworks. Axis includes a built-in Java/XML binding framework that conforms to the binding specificed in the JAX-RPC specification. Axis2 provides a plug-in framework that can support any Java/XML binding framework. Axis2 provides a lightweight binding framework (Axis2 Data Binding [ADB]), but you can also use XMLBeans, JiBX, JAXB, and other databinding frameworks. It can support Castor, too, although I haven't seen anyone implement support for it yet. You really don't want to send/receive the XML as a string, because then it would be serialized as an encoded XML string. What you want is to send serialized XML, (which is what the binding frameworks do for you.) Both Axis and Axis2 permit you to work directly with the XML if you prefer rather than mapping the XML to Java objects. In Axis, you use the "message" style interface, which maps the serialized XML to DOM. In Axis2, you use AXIOM, an XML data model based on StAX. Anne On 1/10/07, Garth Keesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that Axis makes it easy to send/receive pojos (I've never actually > made this work yet but I believe it's true:-) using web services but this > requires that both ends have access to the class definition. I would prefer > to send/receive xml as a string avoiding that requirement, loading/unloading > the xml into an instance of the class in the service. I've read a bit on > Castor but I'm curious if there isn't something built into Tomcat/Axis that > would do this. > > Thanx, > Garth > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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