(Pasting Donald's reply from the original thread) On Feb 11, 2008 9:33 PM, Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We need to discuss introducing more dependencies on JAXB as a group > first, as this just ties more of our server code with Sun RI, which has > no alternative implementation right now (and could be licensed from Sun > as GPL in future releases....) > On Feb 11, 2008 8:46 PM, Shiva Kumar H R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went through following tutorials of JAXB & XMLBeans: > a) Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/jaxb/ > b) Tutorial: First Steps with XMLBeans > http://xmlbeans.apache.org/documentation/tutorial_getstarted.html > > Also searched for comparisons btw them. Latest one I could find is the > following blog from Jan'2005: http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=321 > > I am yet to see the value add JAXB brings over XMLBeans. Am I missing > something? > > > On Feb 11, 2008 4:44 PM, Shiva Kumar H R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Despite my liking for xmlbeans and its unique strengths I think a very > > > strong argument can be made for moving the deployer code to jaxb. > > > > > Interesting!! Let me do some quick learning of jaxb and start a separate > > thread on this. > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > david jencks > > > > > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Shiva Kumar H R wrote: > > > > > > 2) Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in (GEP): > > > a) Model framework for Geronimo deployment plans: > > > Currently it is EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework). With every update to > > > Geronimo deployment schema, it's a major pain to generate new EMF classes. > > > If however, GEP uses the same model framework as that of Geronimo server > > > (XMLBeans), then at least this problem would be solved. IIUC JSR-88 > > > DConfigBeans would be the ideal model framework for GEP - in that case > > > even > > > if the model framework of server changes in future, GEP would be > > > unaffected. > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > Shiva > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Shiva > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Shiva
