On 3/13/06, Stephen Bash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce-
>
> Sounds good. I'm interested in hearing your take on a couple issues
> as they relate to the JAXB 2 spec. Two things jumped out at me while
> I was reading mostly because of discussions that have occurred on
> recently on the Castor lists. First, the requirement that all classes
> be JavaBeans, and second, the use of annotations for mapping.
>
> For the first topic, this is basically how Castor currently works
> (though Castor does offer direct access to public fields). Very
> recently on the list there was a discussion about persistence
> frameworks breaking the public/private barrier in order to work with
> classes that have a "restricted" public API (i.e. no set methods or
> some other constraint). I'm going to refrain from stating an opinion
> here (though with a little work anyone can find my opinion elsewhere),
> and ask instead your thoughts on how this plays with JAXB 2. Along a
> similar vein is the requirement from JAXB for a no-arg constructor.
>
> Looking now to the second topic, I like the idea of not having to
> manage multiple files in order to map a class, but I might worry if
> the capability of a user (albeit a pretty amazing user) to edit a
> mapping themselves is being removed in favor of annotations. I know
> 95% of the time the mapping is set by the developer and never changed,
> but with an external mapping file it is possible (albeit improbable)
> that someone can restructure the XML without touching the code (and
> still have everything work). Again, I'd like to hear your thoughts on
> this topic.
As Keith already noted, we're not going to remove any of Castor's
current functionality. We're talking about having modes of
compatibility but I can think of scenarios where you might want mixed
mode compatibility, but we're not sure yet.
Bruce
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