Thanks Bill, I'll take a look at your patch later today. If I have further questions I will comment on the issue.
Regards Ralf Castor JDO, committer Bill Leng schrieb: > Ralf, > > Thanks for your clarification on this XML issue. I totally understand > the situation. Can you take a look at the bug Castor-1267? I did exactly > what you suggested and worked out a fix. If it does not break anything, > can you commit the change? > > thanks > > Bill > > Ralf Joachim wrote: > >> Hi Harish, >> >> I'm sorry that you didn't get an response to you last mail. >> >> Let me explain a bit about organisation of the castor project. Castor >> consists of 2 parts that work together very close but require a bit >> different knowledge from those working on it. Therefore we have >> committers that mainly work on JDO or XML side of the project. >> >> On the JDO side there are Werner and myself that are quite active >> developing castor and offering support through mailing list. In addition >> there are about 2 others that contribute from time to time. >> >> On the XML side the situation doesn't look that good at the moment. >> Keith Visco, the main developer of this part, only have very few time to >> contribute. He is only able to answer some of the users questions at the >> moment. Apart of Keith there are 1 or 2 others that frequently offer >> support on the mailing list but there is none that actively takes care >> on the developement. >> >> Even if Werner and myself are willing to help out on XML we are not able >> to also take over the XML developement. I may need to mention at this >> point that castor is a open source project that depends on contribution >> of vulenteers and we are also not paid for this and need to work on >> Castor mainly in our free time. >> >> As you are hit by one of the issues that Castor has on the XML side I >> would suggest you to search if there is an open issue about that in jira >> or create a new one if not. The next step to resolve that issue will be >> to create a test case that enables others to reproduce the problem and >> can later be used to verify that a featur added or a bug that has been >> fixed will not be broken with futur changes. Next you need to prepare a >> patch that fixes that issue and does not break other things. >> >> If you are willing to go this way with us, Werner, Keith and myself will >> help you as far as we can to resolve the issue and get it into the next >> release. >> >> Now back to where we have started. The reason why I did not respond to >> your first mail is that it is related to XML which is not my main area >> of work and that I did not understand what you wanted to know. Maybe I >> would be able to help you if I would have had more details about your >> problem. This could be a description of the problem in the mail or a >> pointer to one of the issues in jira. >> >> According to the problems you mentioned in your mail: >> - why do you need to tweak a lot in code when your xsd changes? >> - are you using introspection, mapping or source generator? >> - what are the problems with mapping of dates? >> - how does a simpel xsd look like where the naming problem happens? >> - are you using a binding file (only applies to source generator)? >> - are there issues in jira that describe your problems? >> - what are the numbers of this issues? >> >> Regards >> Ralf >> Castor JDO, committer >> >> >> Vembu, Harish schrieb: >> >>> Hello All, >>> I did not get any reply for my posting so far. Any quick >>> help would be much helpful. I am planning to try out JAXB and/or JIBX >>> as an alternative to Castor 0.91. Please advise at the earliest. >>> >>> >>> Thanks & Regards, >>> >>> Harish.V >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Vembu, Harish Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:13 AM >>>> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >>>> Subject: Castor0.91 implementation >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello All, >>>> I would like to get valid inputs and suggestions for the >>>> Castor implementation in my project as given below. Are these below >>>> mentioned problems taken care in latest version of Castor1.0 ? >>>> Thanks in advance for your help. >>>> >>>> Thanks & Regards, >>>> >>>> Harish.V >>>> ________________________________________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Hi Harish (asuming Harish is your first name), >>>> >>>> would you please be so kind to post this to the dev mailing list, where >>>> it will be dealt with in the appropriate way. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Werner >>>> >>>> Vembu, Harish wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dear Werner, >>>>> >>>>> Its always nice to know a new group who are experts in an >>>>> area where you are just placed your feet. >>>>> My query is regarding a design change to be suggested for an >>>>> existing solution implemented using Castor 0.91. >>>>> The existing solution in brief: >>>>> >>>>> We have a J2EE portal application accessing another payment >>>>> application through JMS/MQ series. The communication with the >>>>> Payment application - Request and Response is through XML messages. >>>>> Castor is used as for marshalling/Unmarshalling of Java objects/ >>>>> XML docs. >>>>> >>>>> The problem: Becasue of the frequent changes to the XSD schemas >>>>> there is a necessity to tweak a lot with the Java code and also in >>>>> the portal code. There is problem in mapping of Date field and for >>>>> XSD schema elements having same names. Also when there are multiple >>>>> elements with same name in XSD schema then there are issues with >>>>> respect to marshalling and unmarshalling to and from Java objects. >>>>> In short there is not 100 % mapping achieved. We need to find a >>>>> design solution to avoid this shortcoming in using Castor. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended >>> recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential >>> information and/or be subject to legal privilege. 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