[jdom-interest] Class generator

[Brad Cox]

Regarding "a "tool" that would create those classes automatically from a
xsd file"

If I understand your question correctly, that's what JAXB does.
http://jaxb.java.net/


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Rolf,
>
> I'll do my best to the JDOM community :-)
>
> This example was compiled with JDOM 1.1.1 and jdk 1.3.1 on a j2se 1.2
> eclipse environment, because my Ubuntu 11.10 won't execute the java 1.2.1
> binaries (only my virtual CentOS 2...).
>
> About your observations: my first post was about asking if there was a
> "tool" that would create those classes automatically from a xsd file (or a
> xml file like EditiX). In my approach, the only "hard" work is to copy the
> toXML() method to each class. But in the end, you're right :-)
>
> Maybe a ToDo tool for JDOM :-)
>
> Alexandre
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Rolf <jdom at tuis.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alexandre.
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback. It's nice when people respond the way you
>> have.
>>
>> I have some observations, and a question....
>>
>> First the questions, in an earlier mail you indicated that you are using
>> Java 1.2.1. Do you have this running under Java 1.2.1? Are you using JDOM
>> 1.1.2?
>>
>> Then the observations....
>>
>> Just out of interest (and I know that the 'cars2java' example may be a
>> massive simplification), but have you considered simply extending the JDOM
>> classes to get what you want? You may be able to eliminate a complex
>> 'model'. It may create other issues, but, you may come up with a simpler
>> (and perhaps better) solution.
>>
>> For example, you could declare the class 'Car' to be:
>>
>> public class Car extends org.jdom.Element {
>>
>>    public Car(String brandname) {
>>        super("Car");
>>        setBrand(brandname);
>>    }
>>
>>    public void setBrand(String brandname) {
>>        Element brand = getChild("Brand");
>>        if (brand == null) {
>>            brand = new Element("Brand");
>>            // add brand at the beginning of our content....
>>            addContent(0, brand);
>>        }
>>        brand.setText(brandname);
>>    }
>>
>>    public String getBrand() {
>>        Element brand = getChild("Brand");
>>        if (brand == null) {
>>            return "";
>>        }
>>        return brand.getText();
>>    }
>>
>>    ......
>>
>> }
>>
>> Once you have defined 'Car' to extend the JDOM Element, you can create
>> Car instances, and add them directly to a root element:
>>
>> Element cars = new Element("Cars");
>> Car renault = new Car("renault");
>> renault.setColorRGB("red", "FF0000");
>> cars.addContent(renault);
>>
>> xmlout.output(System.out, cars);
>>
>>
>> Just some thoughts.
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21/12/2011 6:05 PM, Alexandre Santos wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Rolf,
>>> I've been doing some experiments with a software called EditiX that can
>>> creates Java classes from a XML file. I've used JDOM on those classes to
>>> accomplish what I've been trying.
>>> The description of the solution I've figured out is here:
>>> www.alexandre-santos.com/**Cars2Java.html<http://www.alexandre-santos.com/Cars2Java.html>
>>> <http://www.alexandre-santos.**com/Cars2Java.html<http://www.alexandre-santos.com/Cars2Java.html>
>>> >
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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