Betwixt the Brackets

.nbcomm {color: #969696} .nbchar {color: #ce7b00} .nbkeyword {color: #0000e6} So we need to convert objects into XML and back again, eg. to store some data in the database in XML format, because otherwise maybe we just gonna have too many tables and joins and what-not. Actually this is for a PNR, which is "Person Name Record" or something of that nature, as used in the travel industry for any booking eg. flights but also car hire, hotels, cruises etc. The other columns in the PNR table will be search terms for an agent to find a PNR, but otherwise all the gazillion details that passengers seem to require are stuffed into the XML, from meal preferences, seat preferences, who's got whose baby on their lap, and when was this baby born, not to mention various comments and remarks communicated betwixt the airline and the agents via this PNR. Having used XStream before - which i must say is really great - i thought, let's try getting in and amongst Betwixt, not least because most of our third-party jars are from the Apache behemoth. For a start, lets say we have an entity as follows. public class Traveler extends IdEntity { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) Long id; String firstNames; String surname; String email; String telephone; @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) Salutation salutation; @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE) Date dateOfBirth; ... } So we ...

Date: July, 16 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/evanx/archive/2010/07/16/betwixt-brackets

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