...

This will the change the namespaces that CXF generates by default so that they are the same as XFire would generate.

XML and Annotation Mapping Overview

Aegis has a flexible mapping system so you can control how your beans are controlled. By default your POJOs are serialized based on their name and namespaces. If you have a class in the "org.codehaus.xfire" package named "Employee" it would be serialized in namespace "http://xfire.codehaus.org" with the local name "Employee"

Fore example, the java class:

public class Employee
{
  private String name;
  private String title;

  public String getName() { return name; }
  public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; }

  public String getTitle() { return title; }
  public void setTitle(String title) { this.title = title; }
}

In XML this translates to:

<Employee xmlns="http://xfire.codehaus.org">
  <name>Santa Claus</name>
  <title>Chief Present Officer (CPO)</title>
</Employee>

In XML Schema this would become a complex type:

<xsd:complexType name="Employee">
  <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1/>
    <xsd:element name="title" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1/>
  </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

Supported Types

• Wiki Markup
  Basic types: int, double, float, long, byte\[\], short, String, BigDecimal

• Arrays
• Collections - including Maps
• Dates: java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, java.sql.Timestamp, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time
• XML: org.w3c.dom.Docmument, org.jdom.Element, XMLStreamReader, Source
• Complex types which are aggregations of the above

If you have constructors defined in your Java beans, make sure a default constructor (i.e. no arguments) is also declared. (Aegis needs a no-argument contstructor to instantiate client Java classes.)

Setting Default minOccurs and nillable Parameters from Java

If you have many properties, and you want most, or all of them, to have a minOccurs other than 0 or a nillable other than false, you can change the defaults for Aegis from Java code (amongst other places).
Here is an example: it extracts the binding provider from the service factory, and changes the configuration parameters.

ServerFactoryBean sf = new ServerFactoryBean();
sf.setServiceClass(serviceClass);
sf.setAddress("http://myhost/service");
AegisDatabinding db = new AegisDatabinding();
sf.getServiceFactory().setDataBinding(db);

DefaultTypeMappingRegistry tmr = (DefaultTypeMappingRegistry)db.getTypeMappingRegistry();
// here we disuade XFire from its rather annoying tendency to assume that, just because
// anything in Java can be null, that we want to advertise all that nullity all over.
Configuration configuration = tmr.getConfiguration();
configuration.setDefaultMinOccurs(1);
configuration.setDefaultNillable(false);

sf.create();

More Information....

This section is under construction. For more information about how the Aegis databinding works, please check out the Aegis documentation at the XFire site (http://xfire.codehaus.org/User's%2bGuide).