Why Castor + AXIS?

[Dino Chiesa <di...@microsoft.com>]

What's the typical reason for using Castor with AXIS? 
  - AXIS is missing features that Castor has?
  - Castor is already in use and the org wants to add webservices
capability

  - something else? 

-Dino 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Stephen [mailto:marvin.the.paranoid@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:33 PM
To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
Subject: Fault code not being reported when CastorSerializer throws
exception

Hi,

    I am seeing a validation failure in my response (which is an
application failure that I will correct), but the associated fault code
isnt being reported back to the client. Here is the exception that I see
in the application server logs :

[2/28/05 11:19:34:782 CST] 35205df6 SystemOut     U - Exception:
AxisFault
 faultCode:
{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
 faultSubcode: 
 faultString: java.io.IOException: Message doesn't comply with the
associated XML schema :The following exception occured while validating
field: _items of class:
services.ice.catalog.details.DetailResponseType
 faultActor: 
 faultNode: 
 faultDetail: 
	{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:java.io.IOException:
Message doesn't comply with the associated XML schema :The following
exception occured while validating field: _items of class:
services.ice.catalog.details.DetailResponseType
	at
org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor.CastorSerializer.serialize(CastorSer
ializer.java:120)
	at
org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext.serializeActual(Serializat
ionContext.java:1353)
	at
org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext.serialize(SerializationCon
text.java:880)
	at org.apache.axis.message.RPCParam.serialize(RPCParam.java:177)

    But on the client side, I get an empty response with an HTTP status
code of 200. Has anyone seen this behaviour? Any known fixes? I am using
1.2RC2 on WebSphere v4.

Thanks,
Kenneth

Re: Why Castor + AXIS?

[Kenneth Stephen <ma...@gmail.com>]

Dino,

    In my case, it is primarily the first reason you mention. Castor
has better coverage of XML schema features. Plus it also allows
validation. Another minor thing : the Axis generated code serializes 
null object references using xsi:nil, whereas, wilth Castor, the XML
element itself doesnt get produced. This, IMHO, is cleaner XML, though
both forms are correct.

Regards,
Kenneth


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:11:02 -0800, Dino Chiesa <di...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> What's the typical reason for using Castor with AXIS?
>   - AXIS is missing features that Castor has?
>   - Castor is already in use and the org wants to add webservices
> capability
> 
>   - something else?