Re: Object with a toXML method

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I almost went that route, but I've been playing with JAXB today and I am
really impressed.

I noticed it didn't by default, include read-only fields. Then I found the
@XmlElement annotation. Put that on any method and it will include it.

Also found these annotations handy:
    @XmlElementWrapper
    @XmlElement(name="orderLine")

Took a List of order lines in an order, created an
<orderLines><orderLine></orderLine></orderLines> element. It's quite nice.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I might at some still look into that. Just
to play with if nothing else.

James R. Perkins


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 15:48, Narayanan R Pillai <strqst400@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Roll your own. Our domain base object has a toXML() method, that way all
> our domain objects inherit it. The method basically recurses through all
> the embedded objects within itself and uses reflection and jdom to
> produce the XML. Works like a charm.
>
> Pillai