Jarek Kucypera wrote:
Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
I haven't tried out the Axis2 POJO support, but in general anything
you do using POJOs directly is going to be both inflexible and very
limited in terms of the XML support.
With all respect, xml here is the tool, not the purpose. I would like
to expose my serwice without any knowlege of wsdl and xml and focus
just on the bussiness logic, even for the price of not utilizng all
the features of xml. Even with axis2 1.2 it's hardly possible.
I understand your goal and I'm not unsympathetic. Certainly the POJO
support in Axis2 could do a better job than it apparently does of
handling some of these cases (such as the 0-length array example which
was the topic of this thread). But generally the idea of deploying POJOs
directly is a very limited approach, at best only suitable for small
applications, and if you're doing anything substantial you're probably
going to need to start controlling the XML conversions at some point.
That's where either JiBX or JAXB 2.0 can help, since they both allow
basically POJO objects to be converted to and from XML without the
limitations of direct-from-POJO approaches.
If you're really determined to work directly with POJOs and don't care
about the XML and WSDL, the original Axis may be a better alternative
for you than Axis2. Axis supports the rpc/enc style which provides the
best support for direct use of POJOs in web services. But note that
you'll lose interoperability by going with rpc/enc, which pretty much
defeats the whole idea of making something a web service. This style has
been deprecated in newer frameworks largely due to the limitations, and
Axis2 does not support rpc/enc at all.
- Dennis
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