I can imagine that JAXB would be a perfect fit for solutions that natively
deal with documents, since HTML obviously is THE description for documents.
But I actually wonder what the sense of JAXB-to-HTML shall be like in a
generic way? I mean, how to encode a "chair", "fruit", or "car" into a HTML
document? Ain't it more the case (like Paul says) that you like to view
*descriptions* of objects (i. e. XML ---> XSL ---> HTML) instead of objects
themselves?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: Montag, 22. März 2010 11:30
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Subject: Re: [Jersey] marshalling to html templates
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:18 PM, John Calcote wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever considered using JAXB and HTML templates to marshall
> > Java objects to/from HTML?
> >
>
> There is nothing specifically in JAXB support that, so it would
> require some addition stuff. An XML style sheet would IMHO be the best
> fit, XML to HTML or XHTML, rather than code that operates on the JAXB
> related classes.
>
>
> > Seems like a useful thing to do, and I've got a use case for it at
> > the moment. I have a ReST webapp and client that exchange XML
> > messages. For testing and browsability, it would be nice to support
> > text/html as an accept header mimetype from the browser.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> That should be possible if you reference a style sheet with the XML.
> Browsers should be able to process the XML and apply the style sheet.
>
> In JAXB one can set the style sheet on the marshaller using the
> property:
>
> https://jaxb.dev.java.net/nonav/2.1.10/docs/
> vendorProperties.html#xmlheader
> http://n2.nabble.com/Marshaling-JAXB-objects-including-stylesheet-
> information-td2429726.html
>
> In JAX-RS/Jersey you can supply a ContextResolver<Marshaller> for the
> JAXB objects.
>
> Two alternatives if the server supports such style sheet
> transformation:
>
> - write a message body writer supporting JAXB and text/html and reuse
> the JAXB XML support via the injected Providers interface.
>
> - write a template provider such that one can specify the style sheet
> as a view.
>
> return new Viewable("mystylesheet.xml", myJaxbInstance);
>
> Paul.
>
>
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