Hi Steve,
> Have a look at Jackson
> http://jackson.codehaus.org/
>
> I've been thinking the same thing, though. I need/want to have some better
> way to annotate various serialization without getting into annotation hell.
Apropos "annotation hell", have you seen Annox?
http://confluence.highsource.org/display/ANX/Home
> I need/want to be able to annotate a class for jpa, XML(jaxb), and json
> formatting, and it's just ugly right now.
>
> There are some addl features that I also find lacking, like role-based
> serialization (some roles shouldn't see certian data on a class) to allow me
> to better seperate the security concern.
>
> Let me know what you think about Jackson, and if your still thinking of
> going it from scratch...perhaps we can work on something together..
As far as I understand Jackson, it is a Java library. What I'm looking
for is a client-side JavaScript library, so-to-speack JAXB
implementation in JavaScript. Or am I missing something in Jackson?
I'd be glad not to implement it from scratch, but I failed to find a
suitable tool till now.
I've already started some preliminary experimenting:
http://lexicore.blogspot.com/2010/09/javascript-code-model.html
Bye.
/lexi