[jboss-dev] Infinispan configuration - all in one solution

[Anil Saldhana]

Please do the marshalling/unmarshalling using JAXB.  JBossXB is JAXB 
friendly.

It is time we give Alexey a break from JBossXB to pursue areas suitable 
to his tremendous talent.

Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
> On 7/17/09 5:16 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>   
>> Wouldn't it be better to write a javadoc-like generator that
>> introspected for JAXB and Inifispan annotations instead of writing your
>> own XML parser and schema generator?  Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your
>> post.
>>
>> In other words, use JAXB for marshalling/unmarshalling/schema
>> generation.  Use inifinispan javadoc generator for documentation.
>>    
>>     
> I looked around a bit more to see that now in JAXB 2.x we have 
> annotations as well :) If we annotate our configuration beans with JAXB 
> annotations I suppose we can do exactly what you suggest - use JAXB for 
> marshalling/unmarshalling/schema generation and at the same time use 
> those annotation in a custom tool that creates reference documentation.
>   
>> By creating your own XML parsing you've just complicated the maintenance
>> problems for future maintainers of infinispan.
>>    
>>     
> I agree.
>