Thanks! I wish we could get the JAXB integration into Cayenne that would be a great asset for the work we use. I am not sure if we could tackle it here or not.
Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrus Adamchik" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2011 7:57:35 AM Subject: Re: Help with Jersey Rest Services and Cayenne On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > XML (or other types of serialization) of framework-managed objects is a > pretty involved topic. So my advise would be to use your own POJO data > transfer objects (DTO) to work with JAXB (those can be auto generated from > the model with custom templates if you want). And I wish at some point we'd create JAXB bindings for Cayenne. Just that nobody volunteered to do that yet. We took a few shots at various XML serialization implementations. The most notable are: 1. http://cayenne.apache.org/doc30/api/org/apache/cayenne/xml/package-summary.html Working, but has severe performance limitations. Deprecated in 3.1 and will be removed from Cayenne in the future. 2. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cayenne/sandbox/cayenne-serialization/ A proof of concept that I wrote for metadata-driven XStream-based serializer (can work with JSON or XML). I like this one. It provides fine-grained control over which parts of the object graph are serialized and is generally more flexible than 1. However it still requires significant work to make it production-quality. 3. Finally the JAXB integration was an idea that was floated around, but hasn't materialized yet. Any interested parties are welcomed to jump on the dev list and discuss this further (and offer help!). Cheers, Andrus
