Thanks, Keith. Unfortunately, I can't find your earlier message in the
archive. Could you point me to it?
thanks,
jeff
At 04:38 PM 5/2/2002 -0500, Keith Visco wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>Jeff Klann wrote:
> >
> > This might be an extremely simple question, but I'm a newbie to Castor
> JDO....
> >
> > I am currently generating Java code from an XML Schema with Castor. Now I
> > want to persist some instances of the generated Java code to a database
> > (rather than marshal back to XML). Is there any way to use Castor JDO to do
> > this? I was thinking I'd write a mapping file for the Java types that
> > Castor generated from the Schema, but the data seems to be private.
> >
>
>Castor should generate public getters/setters (accessor methods) to
>obtain
>the data. A mapping file can be used.
>
>The biggest problem when trying to use Castor-XML's source code
>generator with Castor-JDO is for enumerated types. The source generator
>will create type-safe enumerations, that do not have a public
>constructor. The trick is to use a custom FieldHandler. I have
>demonstrated how to do this in the past on the this list.
>
>If you are not using XML Schema enumerations, then you should be able to
>map the object model cleanly.
>
>You can also use the org.exolab.castor.tools.MappingTool to help with
>the initial mapping. You'll have to add <sql> elements on your own
>however.
>
>--Keith
>
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