Hello,
I have an EJB application which exchanges data of the following class:
public class Employee implements Serializable
{
// not null public
String name;
// null if no manager
public Employee manager;
// null if no subordinates, otherwise a Vector of Employee objects
public Vector subordinates;
// not null
public String ssn;
public double salary;
// null if no dependents
public Dependent[] dependents;
}
public class Dependent implements Serializable
{
public String name;
public int age;
public String relationShip;
}
Now I would like to make this EJB application available as a Web Service by
using Apache SOAP 2.2.
I understand that I need to convert Employee class data in XML. For this
purpose I have studied soap-2_2\samples\addressbook in
Apache SOAP 2.2 installation and understood that SOAP bean
serializer/deserializer should be used. But in this case class
Employee is much more complex than the class Address and has the following
complexities:
a. Class Employee referes to itself through manager, subordinates. I know
that XML does not permit nesting, i.e, within employee tag you can not
again have employee tags. I am thus having difficulty how Employee class
would look when serialized to XML.
b. Class Employee has a vector of Employee (subordinates) and array of
Dependent (dependents). These are not simple property to be exposed
by get/set. I know that Apache SOAP bean serializer/deserializer does bean
introspection to perform its function. Basically I would like to know what
to
do with 'indexed properties' of a bean define them as per "Java Bean
Specification" and SOAP bean serializer/deserializer would work?
For class Dependent I understand that just exposing bean (set/get) methods
would suffice for Apache SOAP bean serializer/deserializer to work.
Please advise how may I proceed to XML serialize/deserialize Employee using
Apache SOAP bean serializer/deserializer?
Thanks.
Regards,
Soumen Sarkar
Atoga Systems Inc. (http://www.atoga.com)
510-743-0254
