It sounds like you're talking about the original JAXB EA - that's the one that used DTDs. That code's been dropped and replaced with a new API designed for Schema support. You can see the JAXB home page for details: http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxb/index.html I've also got a pair of articles online at IBM developerWorks that cover JAXB and open source alternatives for data binding. The first one (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-databdopt/index.html) covers JAXB's history and the features of all the alternatives, the second (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-databdopt2/) covers performance.
The good news is that JAXB (the new one) is intended to be integrated into JAX-RPC in the future, and when it is it should offer a very nice approach for handling document literal SOAP. Its performance is also fairly good. The bad news is that until there's a final release it's not usable for anything other than evaluation purposes. I'm hoping that the final release version of the reference implementation (expected by the end of this quarter) will be usable in application code, but have not seen any committment on this from Sun.
In the meantime Castor is probably your best alternative if you want to work with data binding inside Axis (aside from the built-in RPC-encoding support). There've been a number of posts in the past from people working with Castor - you can check the archives on this. It looks like there's now also a built-in encoder for Castor handling in the latest 1.1 code: org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor. I haven't tried this out yet, so can't give you any feedback on how it works.
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski
Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support
http://www.sosnoski.com
Redmond, WA 425.885.7197
David payam wrote:
Hi:
JAXB + DTD is very good for Java and XML mapping. So anybody use JAXB with
Axis ? any example for it?
Thanks
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