Friday, June 18, 2010

Handler Chains: New schema namespace and root node

There's been a change in what is accepted for a handler chain XML file within OEPE, and possibly the WLS runtime libraries.

It used to be accepted to use http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90" for the default namespace but you'll need to start using: java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee

Also the root node needed for handler chain files needs to be: handler-chains instead of the old weblogic-wsee-clientHandlerChain.

Just to be clear here is an old example file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-wsee-clientHandlerChain
xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:j2ee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee">
<handler>
<j2ee:handler-name>clienthandler1</j2ee:handler-name>
<j2ee:handler-class>
helloservice.ClientHandler1
</j2ee:handler-class>
<j2ee:init-param>
<j2ee:param-name>ClientParam1</j2ee:param-name>
<j2ee:param-value>value1</j2ee:param-value>
</j2ee:init-param>
</handler>
<handler>
<j2ee:handler-name>clienthandler2</j2ee:handler-name>
<j2ee:handler-class>
helloservice.ClientHandler2
</j2ee:handler-class>
</handler>
</weblogic-wsee-clientHandlerChain>


And the newer one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<handler-chains
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:j2ee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee">
<handler>
<j2ee:handler-name>clienthandler1</j2ee:handler-name>
<j2ee:handler-class>
helloservice.ClientHandler1
</j2ee:handler-class>
<j2ee:init-param>
<j2ee:param-name>ClientParam1</j2ee:param-name>
<j2ee:param-value>value1</j2ee:param-value>
</j2ee:init-param>
</handler>
<handler>
<j2ee:handler-name>clienthandler2</j2ee:handler-name>
<j2ee:handler-class>
helloservice.ClientHandler2
</j2ee:handler-class>
</handler>
</handler-chains>

Friday, June 04, 2010

JAXB reference implementation and MOXy

JAXB is an important part of JAX-WS web services. It provides object to XML mapping and the reverse.

In OEPE, a wizard using WLS ant scripts has been used for the last two plus years to create JAXB types using Glassfish libraries. Glassfish is the reference implementation Java EE server (currently version 3).

The reference implementation (RI) for JAXB resides under Metro, the web services stack within Glassfish.

Since the JAXB RI under Metro provides great basic functionality for JAXB marshalling/unmarshalling of types and not a lot of add-on features/extensions, there are further implementations that can be used.

One resides under the EclipseLink persistent services framework and it's called MOXy.

MOXy provides support for mapping between schema and Java types, more specialized JPA mapping support and some better performance, to name a few features.

Here's a link below:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/FAQ/WhatIsMOXy

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