Hi, (I have searched this mailing list's archive looking for Xbean guidance but none of the other cases match mine.)
I have written a bean extension to ActiveMQ that I can instantiate using regular bean syntax and everything works just fine. Therefore there are no classpath issues with ActiveMQ finding my bean's jar file. However, I want to take it to the next level and have my bean implement its own custom XML via Xbean but getting this to work is proving elusive. ActiveMQ vomits at startup claiming schema validation errors etc that my bean cannot appear at said location. Like a lot of elements the schema definition contained in activemq-core.xsd of the element inside which I wish to instantiate my bean contains the obligatory last entry: <xs:any namespace='##other' /> This _should_ allow me to extend the element's definition using my custom XML (putting the X into XML). However, according to the definition of xs:any http://www.w3schools.com/schema/el_any.asp it states that "the default processing of the contents of the element is strict - the XML processor must obtain the required namespaces and validate the elements". How should I instruct ActiveMQ's XML processor to find my schema definition? My bean's XSD file sits at the top level of its jar. Xbean has generated all the relevant artifacts under /META-INF/services/org/apache/xbean/spring/... etc. The beans tag in my activemq.xml file looks as follows: <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:m="http://example.com/activemq/schema"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd http://example.com/activemq/schema http://example.com/activemq/schema/example.xsd";> Where the example.com domain contains my bean. What am I missing? Do I need to create a Spring bean factory for this? I am a bit a neophyte when it comes to Spring etc so be kind. :) I have noticed, through experimentation, that if I change the beans tag to read as follows then my bean IS created, however, the creation of other ActiveMQ beans subsequently fail: <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:m="http://example.com/activemq/schema"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd http://example.com/activemq/schema example.xsd"> Just as aside, I don't understand how the activemq-core.xsd is loaded when the activemq-all.jar only contains a schema called activemq.xsd (not activemq-core.xsd) located at the top-level of the jar (like mine is) and yet is referenced as http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd even though 'core' in said path is a file not a folder as found under /META-INF/services/org/apache/xbean/spring/... Can someone explain that to me? Thanks, Paul
