SDO and XMLBeans

[rm...@manu.com]

We are evaluating XMLBeans to be used as a data serialization layer in our 
webservices development. We
would like to be as appserver-neutral as possible in our service 
implementation
while accessing information from deserilaized classes. We found XMLBeans 
to be really useful till now.

We have couple of questions before making a final decision on our 
approach.

1. I have heard about SDO(IBM and BEA are involved in coming up with the 
standard). I haven't read about SDO yet, but is XMLBeans going be to 
SDO-compliant? 

2. I think built-in schemaTypes are not configurable. They are always 
mapped to predefined types. Is there a plan to make these configurable in 
a future release?


thanks

Rao Madhavaram
Manugistics Inc.