Andre Juffer wrote:
Leszek Gawron wrote:
There is no way for the generator to know how xml can be generated out of your domain object. There is no possibility to do that without "helping" the framework. I do not know what is expected from source to be xmlizable. I would have to look into the sources. Or even better do it yourself - you'll get a better knowledge of how cocoon works.
Yes, I thought already that it would go in that direction. I was hoping that reflection was used to get information about a class (e.g. as in Castor).
you can of course use castor generator but I do not know if castor is able to generate anything if it has no mapping file.
Actually, it can, it will use reflection, at least the documentation tells so:
"Castor can marshal "almost" any arbitrary Object to and from XML. When descriptors are not available for a specfic Class, the marshalling framework uses reflection to gain information about the object."
see http://castor.codehaus.org/xml-framework.html
It does require that the object implements the java.io.Serializable interface, though, implying that one has to change the relevant DomainObject class (or extend them to create cocoon/castor specific classes).
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