This one time, at band camp, Daniel Shriver said: DS> I've been looking around at what's available for "improved data DS>serialization" and the toolsets with robust communities (Castor, Hibernate, DS>OJB) all seem to have this "mapping issue" (one needs to write/update DS>mapping files in lockstep with coding). DS> DS>As previously mentioned I want to try and develop a general "auto-mapper" DS>but (as mentioned on this forum) the problem is rather ugly. I am curious DS>if there are people interested in spawning off a new open-source project on DS>this (I'll be working on one myself, and hopefully I'll get permission to DS>make the code open source). Currently I'm thinking of using Java's DS>Reflection API to figure out the necessary fields to save/load...
Daniel, This is task is easily done with XDoclet (http://xdoclet.sf.net/) or the CastorDoclet (http://castordoclet.sf.net/). The only task these two cannot perform is generating a mapping descriptor from already existing classes that do not contain Javadoc doclet tags. In this situation, the only method I see that could be utilized is reflection. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","<0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F9E<G)E=\$\!F<FEI+F-O;0\`\`");' ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
