It sounds like your annotations are used to generate a Castor mapping
XML file. JAXB actually works by reading the annotations at runtime -
meaning that no XML file would be required at all. This would require
Castor to be modified to support reading the annotations at runtime
rather than reading the XML mapping file. In fact, perhaps the Castor
introspection code could simply be modified to recognize the annotations
when figuring out how to map "unmapped" classes.
The annotations used by JAXB have a one-to-one mapping to the mappings
provided by Castor for the most part, with only a few additions (which I
really like) For example, JAXB allows you to do something like the
following:
<autoDealership>
<vehicles>
<car make="Ford" model="Mustang" convertible="false"/>
<truck make="Nissan" model="Titan" fourWheelDrive="true"/>
</vehicles>
</autoDealership>
I believe the only way this can be represented in Castor (correct me if
I'm wrong) is:
<autoDealership>
<vehicle xsi:type="car" .... />
<vehicle xsi:type="truck" .... />
</autoDealership>
Obviously, the first example is much easier to read. And JAXB supports
mapping these type of mappings using annotations. (JAXB also supports
the second example as well)
Jeremy
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:23:19 -0400, "Nick Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> No sorry, should have been more specific. I simply mean that the
> annotations are used to generate the mapping XML files. I dont have
> any experince/knowledge with JAXB and what it involves, although I
> think I'll read up on it tomorrow. :)
>
> The project is currently waiting for approval on java.net, and would
> be more then happy to expand its goal and purpose. Everythings got to
> start somewhere.
>
> -Nick
>
> p.s. Why is castor no where to be found on the front page of code
> haus? Found this really odd when I went looking for it there for some
> reason.
>
> On 7/12/05, Bruce Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 7/11/05, Nick Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have been meaning to set it up somewhere, but just haven't yet. Its
> > > basically a straight translation from the xml spec (used Castors own
> > > code generation to generate the classes from the descriptors and to
> > > write back out to the xml). I've also written a quick and dirty ant
> > > task to help with this as well. It's been working on a very small app
> > > I've been working on, but no promises. :)
> >
> > By XML spec, do you mean the JAXB 2.0 spec? If so, having this in
> > Castor would be fantastic!
> >
> > Bruce
> > --
> > perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*"
> > );'
> >
> > The Castor Project
> > http://www.castor.org/
> >
> > Apache Geronimo
> > http://geronimo.apache.org/
> >
>
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