BEGINNING   JAXB  ( PART-2)

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As mentioned earlier, the recommended schema now is XML-SCHEMA. So, it will be useful if we consider a simple example in that category.

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  Let us now create a folder as g:\jaxbdem

In that folder, copy home.bat,setpath.bat from g:\jaxbdemo of previous lesson.

Then copy setcpath.bat from g:\jaxbdemo.

Change it to begin with g:\jaxbdem;  instead of g:\jaxbdemo as our working directory now is g:\jaxbdem.

We will use the example given by Deepak Vohra in a recent web tutorial(with  crucial corrections!.)

We edit catalog.xsd as follows:

g:\jaxbdem\catalog.xsd 

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<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <xsd:element name="catalog" type="catalogType"/>

 <xsd:complexType name="catalogType">

  <xsd:sequence>

   <xsd:element ref="journal"  minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

  </xsd:sequence>

  <xsd:attribute name="section" type="xsd:string"/>

  <xsd:attribute name="publisher" type="xsd:string"/>

 </xsd:complexType>

 <xsd:element name="journal" type="journalType"/>

 <xsd:complexType name="journalType">

  <xsd:sequence>

   <xsd:element ref="article"  minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

  </xsd:sequence>

 </xsd:complexType>

 <xsd:element name="article" type="articleType"/>

 <xsd:complexType name="articleType">

  <xsd:sequence>

   <xsd:element name="title" type="xsd:string"/>

   <xsd:element name="author" type="xsd:string"/>

  </xsd:sequence>

  <xsd:attribute name="level" type="xsd:string"/>

  <xsd:attribute name="date" type="xsd:string"/>

 </xsd:complexType>

</xsd:schema>

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Let us now generate the java source files>

>xjc    catalog.xsd

It will be noticed that we did not specify

the option -schema . It is the default.

As we have given correct home,path & classpath, the source files are generated as before and we get a list of all the files thus created in the console.

Now also we have 'generated', 'generated\impl' and 'generated\impl\runtime' folders

under g:\jaxbdem  folder.

We now compile the source files.

g:\jaxbdem>javac  generated\*.java  generated\impl\*.java generated\impl\runtime\*.java

We get compilation without any problem atall.

We are now ready to use these classes.

We will create a java object tree and then send it to a file as xml document. The generated xml file will satisfy the schema specified in catalog.xsd.

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//g:\jaxbdem>edit lesson.java

import java.util.*;

import javax.xml.bind.*;

import java.io.*;

import generated.*;

class lesson

{    public static void main(String args[])

    {

    try

    {

    JAXBContext JContext=JAXBContext.newInstance("generated");

    System.out.println("context ok");

 ObjectFactory factory=new ObjectFactory();

 System.out.println("object factory ready");

Catalog  catalog=(Catalog)(factory.createCatalog());

      System.out.println("catalog  ready");

 catalog.setSection("Java Technology");

 catalog.setPublisher("IBM developerWorks");

 System.out.println

("catalog attributes  set ");   

    Journal journal=(Journal)(factory.createJournal());

    java.util.List journalList=catalog.getJournal();

    journalList.add(journal);

    Article article=(Article)(factory.createArticle());

    article.setLevel("Intermediate");

    article.setDate("January-2004");

    article.setTitle("Service Oriented Architecture Frameworks");

    article.setAuthor("Naveen Balani");

    java.util.List  articleList=journal.getArticle();

     articleList.add(article);

        System.out.println("tree ready");

  Marshaller marshaller=jContext.createMarshaller();

      System.out.println("marshaller  ready");

marshaller.setProperty( Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE );

marshaller.marshal(catalog, new FileOutputStream("catalog.xml"));

    System.out.println("java tree converted into xml & filed");

    }

    catch(Exception e1)

    {System.out.println(""+e1);    }

    }

}

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   We can now compile lesson.java

   >javac lesson.java

   If we execute we get the following messages in the console.

<console message>  

context ok

marshaller ok

object factory ready

catalog  ready

 catalog attributes set

ok

java tree converted into xml & filed

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We can now verify by editing the catalog.xml file.( g:\jaxbdem\catalog.xml)

We find it as shown below.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<catalog publisher="IBM developerWorks" section="Java Technology">

    <journal>

        <article date="January-2004" level="Intermediate">

            <title>Service Oriented Architecture Frameworks</title>

            <author>Naveen Balani</author>

        </article>

    </journal>

</catalog>

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That completes our tutorial.

SUN-DOCUMENT FOR REFERENCE:

List of Sample Apps

Many of the sample applications have been given more descriptive names in this release.

samples/bind-choice (formerly part of SampleApp9)

This sample application illustrates how a choice model group is bound to a Java interface by the <jaxb:globalBindings bindingStyle="modelGroupBinding"/> customization.

samples/catalog-resolver

This example demonstrates how to use the new "-catalog" compiler switch for resolving external entity references.

samples/create-marshal (formerly SampleApp3)

This sample application demonstrates how to use the ObjectFactory class to create a Java content tree from scratch and marshal it to XML data. It also demonstrates how to add content to a JAXB List property.

samples/datatypeconverter (formerly SampleApp7)

This sample application is very similar to the inline-customize sample application (formerly SampleApp6), but illustrates an easier, but not as robust, <jaxb:javaType> customization.

samples/external-customize (formerly SampleApp8)

This sample application is identical to the datatypeconverter sample application (formerly SampleApp7) except that the binding customizations are contained in an external binding file.

samples/fix-collides (formerly part of SampleApp9)

Another binding customization example that illustrates how to resolve name conflicts. Run "ant fail" first to see the compiler output and then look at binding.xjb to see how the errors were resolved. Running "ant" will use the binding customizations to resolve the name conflicts while compiling the schema.

samples/inline-customize (formerly SampleApp6)

This sample application demonstrates how to customize the default binding produced by the XJC binding compiler.

samples/modify-marshal (formerly SampleApp2)

This sample application demonstrates how to modify a java content tree and marshal it back to XML data.

samples/namespace-prefix

This sample application demonstrates how to use the new JAXB RI Marshaller property "com.sun.xml.bind.namespacePrefixMapper" to customize the namespace prefixes generated during marshalling.

samples/ondemand-validate (formerly SampleApp5)

This sample application demonstrates how to validate a Java content tree at runtime.

samples/partial-unmarshalling

In this example, the input document will be unmarshalled a small chunk at a time, instead of unmarshalling the whole document at once.

samples/pull-parser

This sample app demonstrates how a pull-parser can be used with JAXB to increase the flexibility of processing.

samples/subgroup-extend

This example shows how the use of the jxb:implClass customization and substitution groups can be used to inject virtual functions into the derived Java hierarchy. It compares two equivalent ways of achieving the same processing, but one is much simpler than the other (search for the "enlightened" boolean flag in the code).

samples/ubl

This sample application processes a UBL order instance and writes a report to the screen.

samples/unmarshal-read (formerly SampleApp1)

This sample application demonstrates how to unmarshal an instance document into a Java content tree and access data contained within it.

samples/unmarshal-validate (formerly SampleApp4)

This sample application demonstrates how to enable validation during the unmarshal operations.

samples/xml-channel

This example demonstrates how to use one communication channel (such as a socket) to send multiple XML messages, and how that channel can be combined with JAXB.

samples/xml-stylesheet

This example demonstrates how the behavior of the marshalling process can be customized. In this example, an <?xml-stylesheet ... ?> processing instruction is inserted into the marshalled document.

Sample applications that illustrate JAXB RI vendor extensions <vendor.html>.

samples/character-escape

This example shows how you can use the new JAXB RI Marshaller property "com.sun.xml.bind.characterEscapeHandler" to change the default character escaping behavior.

samples/dtd

This sample application illustrate some of the DTD support available in the JAXB RI's extension mode. Please refer to the Vendor Extensions <vendor.html> page for more detail.

samples/element-substitution

This sample application illustrates how W3C XML Schema substitution groups are supported in JAXB RI's extension mode. Please refer to the Vendor Extensions <vendor.html> page for more detail.

samples/locator-support

This sample shows how to use the new non-standard locator support. By following the instructions in the readme.txt file, you can cause all of the generated impl classes to implement a new interface that provides more information about error locations. When a ValidationEvent happens on your content tree, simply retrieve the object and cast it down to com.sun.xml.bind.extra.Locatable.

samples/relaxng

This example shows how you can use experimental RELAX NG support.

samples/synchronized-methods

This sample shows how to use the new non-standard synchronized method support. By following the instructions in the readme.txt, you can cause all of the generated impl class methods signatures to contain the "synchronized" keyword.

samples/type-substitution

This sample app demonstrates type substitution using the W3C XML Schema Part 0: Primer international purchase order schema.

samples/vendor-extensions

This example demonstrates how to use the <jxb:serializable> and <jxb:superClass> vendor extensions provided by Sun's JAXB RI.

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