Consumer endpoints

The component now supports two ways of defining Jbi4Corba endpoints:

  1. IDL-first
  2. WSDL-first

In both cases, the endpoint is configured from a WSDL. However, since in the IDL-first case the WSDL is generated from the IDL (using theNetbeans plugin), in the "WSDL-first" case we don't know the IDL (at least at design time) and the endpoint is dynamically generated from the WSDL.

The types and the limitations in the IDL-first case are the same as the provider case (see idl2wsdl) See below for the WSDL supported data types for the WSDL-first case.

WSDL first: Supported XML schema data types

The jbi4corba component supports some of the data types defined in the XML schema specification.

Supported Built-in Data Types

XML Schema types Java Types IDL Types
anySimpleType String wstring
boolean boolean boolean
float float float
double double double
long long long long
int int long
unsignedInt long long long
unsignedShort int long
unsignedByte short short
anyURI String wstring
string String wstring
normalizedString String wstring
token String wstring
language String wstring
Name String wstring
NMTOKEN String wstring
NCName String wstring
ID String wstring
ENTITY String wstring
short short short
byte byte octet

Unsupported Built-in Data Types

XML Schema types Java Types IDL Types
anyType Object
duration javax.xml.datatype.Duration
dateTime javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
time javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
date javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
gYearMonth javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
gYear javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
gMonthDay javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
gDay javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
gMonth javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
base64Binary array of byte
hexBinary array of byte
QName javax.xml.namespace.QName
NOTATION
decimal BigDecimal
integer BigInteger
nonPositiveInteger java.lang.Number
nonNegativeInteger java.lang.Number
negativeInteger java.lang.Number
positiveInteger java.lang.Number
unsignedLong java.lang.Number
NMTOKENS java.util.List
IDREF Object
IDREFS java.util.List
ENTITIES java.util.List

simpleType

The XML Schema specification defines a tag called 'simpleType' used to define a new type from a built-in data type. This tag has some features but the only one supported by jbi4corba is the 'restriction'.

  <xsd:element name="simpleStringRequest">
    <xsd:simpleType>
      <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:simpleType>
  </xsd:element>

complexType

The XML schema definition defines a tag called 'complexType' used to define new types with an advanced structure. A complexType has many features and jbi4corba support many of them. (For a detailed discussion about the 'complexType' please visit the web site of the w3c.org)

  1. group
      <xsd:group name="MyGroup">
    <xsd:all>
      <xsd:element name="user" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
      <xsd:element name="pass" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </xsd:all>
  </xsd:group>
    
  <xsd:element name="TReqGroup">
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:group ref="tns:MyGroup"/>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>
  2. all
      <xsd:element name="TReqAll">
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:all>
        <xsd:element name="user" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="pass" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
      </xsd:all>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>

  <xsd:element name="TResAll">
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:all>
        <xsd:element name="user" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="pass" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
      </xsd:all>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>
  3. sequence

    A complexType that contains a sequence is allowed but there are some limitation:

    1. The 'nillable' attribute must be 'false'
    2. The 'minOccurs' attribute must be 0 or 1.
    3. The 'maxOccurs' attribute must be 0 or 1.
        <xsd:element name="TResSeq">
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="dataString"  type="xsd:string"  nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataBoolean" type="xsd:boolean" nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataFloat"   type="xsd:float"   nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataDouble"  type="xsd:double"  nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataAnyURI"  type="xsd:anyURI"  nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataLong"    type="xsd:long"    nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <xsd:element name="dataInt"     type="xsd:int"     nillable="false" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>