So I have been tasked to join the web service band wagon to implement a WS-* web service interface to pre WS-* web service.
The current service takes an XML POST request processes (business logic) the XML document and returns a response to the client. You could say the service is almost RESTFul as it doesn't really follow the REST tenets.
I have been reading around and have pretty much decided that I will use Metro to implement contract first, doc-lit, wrapping/unwrapping and all that fancy stuff.
My concern is how to implement the transformation to the legacy service and what patterns to use.
At a very high level or simplest use of Metro, it takes the incoming message and transforms it to the JAVA equivalent (POJOs). Technically what I want to do, does not require JAXB to transform the message to JAVA classes, but rather to transform the incoming message to the legacy message. This way I can probably save some processing time.
1- Does anyone know if I can tell metro not to execute the JAXB portion and to pass the message to SMOOKS or some other XML to XML API?
2- A web service method in Metro is annotated with the @WebMethod. At that point the JAXB transform has already happened. So executing the business logic there wouldn't be right.
Are there other ways to achieve this?
Thanks
