I found a pretty good explanation on xbean-spring in this blog: http://www.christianposta.com/blog/?p=111 I'm now trying it out but running into an xml validation exception and I'm not yet sure why.
Kind regards, Tom Mercelis 2012/9/17 Johan Edstrom <[email protected]>: > 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 http://geronimo.apache.org/xbean/ and it seems terribly outdated (it 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 >>>> >> >
