Hello,
My name is Jakub Narloch, I am student at Warsaw University of
Technology in Poland. Currently I am at first year of Master studies (I
had already graduated 3.5 year studies with engineer title, so
altogether, this is my 5 year of studying). I would like to participate
in one of the Castors XML projects. But to do so I would like to ask for
some additional information.
As for my previous experience, I had already gained some by working as
Java developer for private company in Poland. Besides that I took part
in contests hosted by TopCoder Inc for some time, also I am currently
member of TopCoder’s Component Development Review Board.
Below are the questions I would like to ask You:
Idea 1: Spring-OXM extensions:
I had been working with Spring-WS in past, so I am quite familiar with
this framework. Currently the implementation looks very straightforward,
it wraps the Castor XMLContext and Marshaller and Unmarshaller into
single class org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller. The class
does all the work for configuring the Castor, by settings mapping files
etc. I would like to ask with what additional functionality exactly You
would like to extend the Spring OXM?
Idea 2: StAX for marshalling:
This seems quite self explanatory. The idea is to allow marshalling with
help of StAX. However the number of classes that directly depends of SAX
API is quite large, below are mentioned only the packages that I believe
are directly used during object marshalling:
* · org.exolab.castor.xml
* · org.exolab.castor.xml.util
I most concerned on the scope. I assume that only classes from those
packages will have to be refactored, am I right here? Or maybe You wish
to add such additional StAX support to whole component, in some generic
way, e.g. for loading the mapping files?
I have additional question, this time more about the formal
requirements. My question is connected with this statement (from Castor
idea page):
* Have a look at the Castor sources (via SVN), identify code
relevant to the proposal you are interested it and show us your
ideas by the means of a patch.
As I understand I may try to implement my idea (at least in some limited
way) and sent You as a patch. How much complex it has to be then? Also
until when may I send it, is there some kind of deadline besides the
GSOC acceptance date? Do You treat this as obligatory?
I had already started working on the proposals. Any additional
information would be helpful for me.
Thank You in advance.
Regards,
Jakub Narloch
jmnarl...@gmail.com
