If you want simpler NSHandlers I'd look at the cxf code. Tons of little ones in there that should be pretty self explanatory.
/je On Sep 17, 2012, at 10:42 AM, David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote: > I poked around a little bit for xbean-spring but couldn't find any real > documentation there either. I thought there used to be a fairly good > explanation of how it works. You use the xbean-spring maven plugin for both > xbean-spring and xbean-blueprint. > > You javadoc-annotate your classes and properties and bean references and the > xbean-spring maven plugin/ant task generates the schema and property files to > describe the components and mapping between the components and the blueprint > data structures. At runtime the xbean-spring namespace handler uses the > property files to map the xml plan elements following the schema to the > internal blueprint data structures. > > I think the examples to look at are probably the xbean-blueprint tests, > activemq, and servicemix. Hopefully by following along from annotations to > property files to blueprint components you will see how to use it. > > Source code is still in xbean at e.g. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/xbean/tags/xbean-3.9 (no source > modifications after this, although there are 3 more releases of xbean). > > hope this helps, wish I had more time :-/ > david jencks > > On Sep 17, 2012, at 1:44 AM, Tom Mercelis wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to find "xbean-blueprint"; but besides dozens of sites >> which offer browsing the sourcecode, the only "homepage" seems to be >> http://geronimo.apache.org/xbean/ and it seems terribly outdated (it >> mentions version 2.8 from 2007 as the latest version)... did the >> project move? What's the new official location? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Tom Mercelis >> >> 2012/9/14 David Jencks <[email protected]>: >>> xbean-blueprint works fine and is a lot newer than 2007.... I really >>> recommend using it rather than trying to rewrite the functionality. >>> >>> If you deploy the xbean-blueprint bundle and imitate activemq you should be >>> able to get it to work. Sorry about the lack of docs.... >>> >>> You might try looking at what happens during the activemq build with the >>> maven plugin that generates the required property files from the javaodc >>> "annotations" and how those are used by xbean-blueprint. >>> >>> david jencks >>> >>> >>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Tom Mercelis wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I wanted to be able to configure my bean with XML, like ActiveMQ >>>> brokers can be configured in a blueprint XML file. >>>> So far I got my "NamespaceHandler" registered and the parse method is >>>> called on it when blueprint reads my .xml file in Karaf's deploy >>>> folder. >>>> But now I'm lost at what to do next? Am I supposed to instantiate new >>>> objects in the parse function and register them in the osgi container? >>>> I have no clue what to put in the "Metadata" return object and how it >>>> will be processed by blueprint. >>>> >>>> I was inspired to try it this way based on this article: >>>> http://www.tips4java.com/osgiextending-blueprint-with-namespaces/ >>>> >>>> The example given there doesn't quite seem to cover what blueprint >>>> does, so I also started looking into the blueprint source to find out >>>> what is done with the (Component)Metadata that is returned from the >>>> parse method. >>>> >>>> Not really getting it, I also tried to figure out how ActiveMQ does >>>> it. ActiveMQ seems not to implement the NamespaceHandler itself, but >>>> relies on "XBean", but that seems really underdocumented and the last >>>> release dates back from 2007... so I wonder whether that's the way to >>>> go. >>>> >>>> Is there anyone who can give me (point me to) an explanation on how to >>>> implement a NamespaceHandler. My goal isn't too complex: I just want >>>> to create a bean with a list of records instead of just key-value >>>> pairs as one can do with blueprint out-of-the-box. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Tom Mercelis >>> >
