The mapping approach has been the best option up to this point in my experience. I would turn it around and say: if you have the mapping option, why would you use generation?

You basically end up with two options if you generate code from a message format:

1. Use the generated objects as your domain model.
2. Map from your real domain model to the generated objects.

I totally agree with you re the crap models that can result from generated approaches. This is certainly a major challenge for EJC, but may be something that many people are willing to live with when offered the...]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:59:10 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:59:10 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:59:10 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 James Watson 3 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339 You basically end up with two options if you generate code from a message format:

1. Use the generated objects as your domain model.
2. Map from your real domain model to the generated objects.

...]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:46:37 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:46:37 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:46:37 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 Nicolas Bousquet 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339

I totally agree with you re the crap models that can result from generated approaches. This is certainly a major challenge for EJC, but may be something that many people are willing to live with when offered the alternatives of...]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:15:11 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:15:11 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:15:11 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 Tom Fennelly 4 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339 What is the best way to create EDI files from Java objects using Smooks. Are there any examples available?

...]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:10:04 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:10:04 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:10:04 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 Tom Fennelly 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339 I totally agree with you re the crap models that can result from generated approaches. This is certainly a major challenge for EJC, but may be something that many people are willing to live with when offered the alternatives of unraveling...]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:47:45 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:47:45 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:47:45 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 James Watson 7 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:37:39 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:37:39 -0400 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:37:39 -0400 Aug 5, 2009 Sreenidhi NK 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339

The JiBX type approach is often more appealing where the target object model is already in existance and, perhaps, doesn't "line up" with the source EDI message model. Having looked at some of the existing EDI message standards...]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:44 -0400 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:44 -0400 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:44 -0400 Aug 4, 2009 Tom Fennelly 8 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=55339 Smooks does also support an approach more akin to JiBX and in fact, prior to Smooks v1.2, this was the only approach available.

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Hi James, i use JaxB in several projects and all is fine...

Could you add some explanations of why Xjc is not a good idea ?

And what XML solution do you use instead ?