Thanks for the reply. I'm no Web Service guru, but my understanding is that the object is transformed into an XML payload when sent from the client to the server. Once the server receives the XML post, it unmarshals the XML into object representations. That's why I figured I could get this to work very easily/quickly.
I am going to keep looking into this and will post any helpful information I find. On 6/7/07, Peter Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi michael, we did some basic testing on sending cayenne classes via axis 1.4. that didnt really work out, because persistent objects provide references to unserializable objects. i think that this might be handled by a custom de-/serializer, but we did no further investigation. kind regars, peter -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Michael Lepine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007 17:36 An: [email protected] Betreff: Cayenne Generated Classes in Web Service API This may be off topic but hopefully it's not considered to be. I am researching options for creating a web services-based API for our company's flagship product. The data model backing the application has quite a few tables. A lot of the functionality we want to support involves exporting or importing entities with multiple one-to-many relationships with other tables. My planned approach was to suck in the schema and generate the Java classes with Cayenne, which would do all the hard work for me related to creating beans with the proper one-to-many relationships. This (of course) worked great. The second part of my plan was to use the Cayenne-generated Java classes in my Web Services API. I figured that by using those classes in the API, the generated WSDL for my service would include a schema definition of the objects (and all relationships) saving me a lot of time. I'm using AXIS2 from Apache to generate and run the service, and the WSDL does not include a full definition of the Cayenne classes as I'd hoped. I was wondering if anyone else is using Cayenne-generated Java classes in Web Services that they've written and if so, did you do anything special? Were there any issues that you encountered. Any advice that may help? - Mike
