Since everybody is evidently on vacation, I'll answer my own question :)
The XML stuff absolutely rocks. With its help, I've written a simple
DataService that allows me to pipe Cayenne objects directly to the
browser, where I deconstruct them using JSXML and Dojo.
Essentially, I've been able to bind form fields to the database using
the XML encoding. I think the Ajaxishness of it all would be a huge
marketing benefit for 1.2.
Great work, Kevin!
Cris
On 11/17/05, Cris Daniluk <cris.danilu..mail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering using the XML support in 1.2 to directly pipe certain
> object collections directly out to the browser for reading by an Ajax
> library, so that I can quickly populate dropdown lists.
>
> I haven't spent much time investigating the XML support yet, so this
> may be a trivial question, but is it suitable for this? In other
> words, is the XML generated roughly comparable to the objects, so that
> an XPath query would be the same as an OGNL-style query? Or do all
> objects get described using the same "schema" (i.e. field names and
> field values are both defined as values)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cris
>
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