Thanks for the reply.
I'm no Web Service guru, but my understanding is that the object is
transformed into an XML payload when sent from the client to the server.
Once the server receives the XML post, it unmarshals the XML into object
representations. That's why I figured I could get this to work very
easily/quickly.
I am going to keep looking into this and will post any helpful information I
find.
On 6/7/07, Peter Schröder <Peter.Schroede..reenet-ag.de> wrote:
>
> hi michael,
>
> we did some basic testing on sending cayenne classes via axis 1.4.
> that didnt really work out, because persistent objects provide references
> to unserializable objects.
> i think that this might be handled by a custom de-/serializer, but we did
> no further investigation.
>
> kind regars,
> peter
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Lepine [mailto:mikelepin..mail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007 17:36
> An: use..ayenne.apache.org
> Betreff: Cayenne Generated Classes in Web Service API
>
> This may be off topic but hopefully it's not considered to be.
>
> I am researching options for creating a web services-based API for our
> company's flagship product. The data model backing the application has
> quite
> a few tables. A lot of the functionality we want to support involves
> exporting or importing entities with multiple one-to-many relationships
> with
> other tables.
>
> My planned approach was to suck in the schema and generate the Java
> classes
> with Cayenne, which would do all the hard work for me related to creating
> beans with the proper one-to-many relationships. This (of course) worked
> great.
>
> The second part of my plan was to use the Cayenne-generated Java classes
> in
> my Web Services API. I figured that by using those classes in the API, the
> generated WSDL for my service would include a schema definition of the
> objects (and all relationships) saving me a lot of time. I'm using AXIS2
> from Apache to generate and run the service, and the WSDL does not include
> a
> full definition of the Cayenne classes as I'd hoped.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else is using Cayenne-generated Java classes in
> Web Services that they've written and if so, did you do anything
> special? Were there any issues that you encountered. Any advice that may
> help?
>
> - Mike
>
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