I'm considering a switch to JiBX from JAXB primarily because of JAXB's less than ideal support for interfaces, and a coding-to-interfaces approach rather than using concrete (or abstract) classes for everything. Based on what I've read in the documentation, it looks like JiBX supports interfaces fairly well. What limitations does JiBX have in its support for interfaces that you learned from experience but isn't mentioned in the documentation?
In JiBX, can you only create collections of concrete classes (e.g. specifying that this collection can only contain DogClass, CatClass, and RatClass, rather than specifying that it can contain any class that implements AnimalInterface)? Or does JiBX require that referring to interfaces can only be done through abstract classes? All the examples at http://jibx.sourceforge.net/tutorial/binding-mappings.html#abstract only talk about abstract classes and inheritance, rather than interfaces - are interfaces possible? And if so, would I have to include getters and setters on them, or does jibx do introspection on the class itself? My other question has to do with using identifiers (http://jibx.sourceforge.net/tutorial/binding-collects.html#ids) - can you specify an idref that is an interface? For example, can you have a class with an id reference of type AnimalInterface that, depending on its value, points to a DogClass, CatClass, or RatClass? Also, can anyone with experience in JiBX and JAXB comment on the differences between their functionality with interfaces? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/JiBX-support-for-interfaces-tf4886806.html#a13987271 Sent from the jibx-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ jibx-users mailing list jibx-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jibx-users
