On Sun July 12 2009 2:21:02 am Michael Berkowitz wrote: > Thanks, Benson. I'll have to give thought to my next steps based on your > analysis. > > We went with Aegis in the first place because it had "hands free" support > for all the Collections that we use and classes that we defined (except, of > course, for the ones under discussion). My understanding is that moving to > JAXB -- even assuming it supports these sort of references -- would require > us to either generate or write serializers for various complex types that > our web methods pass about.
It kind of depends on how "complex" the stuff is you are passing around. If just Lists, it shouldn't be much work. If dealing with Maps, then it is more complex. Most other objects are OK as the rules for JAXB and Aegis are similar (default constructor, getter/setters, etc...) > Is that an accurate assessment, or should I > delve further into JAXB to see just how off-putting it would be? Are there > other DataBindings? There is XMLBeans, but that is even more of a schema first thing than JAXB. Dan > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Margulies [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:29 PM > To: Michael Berkowitz; CXF Users > Subject: CXF-1670 > > Michael, > > The result of your labors is to reduce this to the observation that > Aegis does not handle a circular object graph. Hibernate, indeed, has > nothing special to do with it. > > When I asked my fellow developers about this on another occasion, the > very weak consensus was that adding support for this to Aegis was a > questionable idea, and that we should suggest JAXB > > https://jaxb.dev.java.net/guide/Mapping_cyclic_references_to_XML.html > > for people who needed this sort of thing. I haven't entirely convinced > myself that your case would be covered by this recipe. > > I'm sorry that you put so much energy into the test case given the outcome. > > I'm not religiously opposed to coming up with some sort of circle > helper for Aegis, but I'm unlikely to find time to do it any time > soon. > > --benson -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
