Re: [apache-xmlbeans] willingness to fork off XMLBeans

[David Bau <da...@bea.com>]

> But regardless, it would appear that the current design of XMLBeans is such that it can be integrated with WorkShop, whereas other marshalling frameworks cannot.

This is not a limitation of XMLBeans.  You're free to take a look at the source code for XMLBeans to see that there's no "secret" limitations inside XMLBeans.  You're just seeing the fact that custom marshallers have not been done for other marshalling frameworks yet. Why not?  There is no insidious reason.  It's because XMLBeans is new.  Before being contributed to Apache, it was developed at BEA, so it happens to be used already in some BEA products.

It is a definite goal of the XMLBeans dev team to be integrated into AXIS as well as the other important marshalling frameworks (including any you can get from BEA).  We believe the technology fills an important need, and should be used in a widespread way.  I believe this can be done cleanly without breaking compatibility with existing XMLBeans usage.

David