Hello All,
I have the following situation and am wondering if any of you can offer any suggestions as to how to best handle it : 1) I have added a new method to the wsdl and this method basically accepts the given input and then has to transform/map the data into an xml structure ( not SOAP ) to send to some other server ( not a Web Service ) and then await a response from this server and map the xml response back into the java objects ( defined in the wsdl ) to send back to the client who called my web service. 2) The problem I have here is that there is not a 1 to 1 mapping from the request objects ( defined in my wsdl ) and the xml I have to send to the other server. I have looked into using jaxb to create java object from the schema of the xml I have to send to this other server and I could do it that way, but the problem with this solution is that I have to write additional code to map my java request objects into the corresponding jaxb generated java objects. Sounds like a drag to me! I have also looked into using Jibx. This looks intriguing, as it looks as if I can bypass java object to object mapping on the server and basically map the java object from my web service request straight to the xml I need. My only concern about Jibx is that it modifies the byte code. This sounds dangerous to me and I'm not sure I want to use it. Do any of you know if Jibx is safe to use or if there are any alternatives that provide jibx like behavior? Thanks, Hamish.
