XmlBeans and SDO?

[Aleksander Slominski <as...@cs.indiana.edu>]

XmlBeans Developers/Users,

so what is your take on role of XmlBeans in relation to SDO 
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/technologies/commonj/sdo/index.jsp> (XmlBeans 
seems to be missing from list of tools mentioned even though it the most 
complete XML Schema support for Java data binding AFAIK)

in particular how simplified model of SDO (where Data Objects are put in 
a sequence) will work with all complexities of XML Schema content models 
(in particular dependency of SDO on Sequence/List to access DO content):

(...)
*Tool support.* SDO enables a wide range of tool support. Java interface 
generation tools
are necessary to provide static data APIs that integrate with SDO. For 
example, a tool
could be provided that generates static data APIs from XML Schema and is 
integrated
with the SDO APIs. Likewise, a tool could be provided that generates 
static data APIs
from relational schemas and is integrated with the SDO APIs. Yet another 
tool could be
used to generate interfaces from UML [21] models. *In fact, many of 
these tools exist
today, and simply need to be extended to support SDO.* Follow-on 
specifications may
define how Java interfaces are generated from various data sources if 
there is not an
appropriate specification already.
(...)
we see how much simple is this "simple extensions" ,,,

anyway SDO look like it is RF so may be implementable in Apache and in 
particular by XmlBeans?

so the question seems to be if XmlBeans v2 will have some kind of 
pluggable provider APO or everything (XmlObject, XmlCursor, DOM, SDO? 
...) needs to be cooked together ...

thanks,

alek

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