As a follow up to Anne's post, dated 08/04 11:20:28 -- specifically: "Castor performs
translations from xsd types to Java objects." For those of you familiar enough with
Castor -- I've a question.
Just a disclaimer -- sorry for the Castor slant here -- I'm just looking for someone
to say, "yes you can accomplish this" or "no, you can't".
Let's suppose I implement my service as a message style service and I'm handed the
soap envelope by Axis. Also, let's assume I have a set of classes in my domain that
I'd like to flesh out with the data represented in the soap body. My question is
whether or not I can use Castor to marshall/unmarshall this data for me given a
mapping file or do I have to rely on Castor generated classes/marshalling framework to
handle this? For example, if in my <types> I've defined the following:
<xsd:complexType name="Person">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="firstName" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="lastName" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="birthDate" type="xsd:date/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
And someone invokes my services and passes me type "Person" -- is there a convenient
way via Castor to map it into object type Foo?
class Foo {
private String fName
private String lName
private Calendar dateOfBirth
public get/setFName
public get/setLName
public get/setDateOfBirth
}
Thanks yet again!
Cory
