Diskussion:Release 0.4

To get a feel for the API I created a temporary WSDL with two operations "quote" and "book". From this I created a dummy java web application (WAR) using "wsimport" and played around with it a little.

Here are my first impressions and suggestions:

• Generation of code works fine with only one little problem:
  • There are a few abstract types in the definitions, e.g. "StringCommonTravellerType". This prevented travellers to be created from the input xml request at runtime.
  • So for the time being, I removed all four "abstract=true" statements in my local copy of the xsds. We should look into this.
• We should get rid of the "String"-Prefix of every type name.
  • It just causes names to be longer without any additional information.
  • It makes code completion features in IDEs difficult to use, if everything starts with "String...".
• Maybe we can get rid of redundant collection containers, i.e. if we have a <services/> element we do not need a <service/> element below that which in turn contains the concrete element <Accommodation/> . We should eliminate the generic <service/> element in between:

Currently we have to write:

    <ns2:Services>
       <ns2:Service>
          <ns2:Accommodation>
             <ns2:Identifier>DUMMY_TEST_RESULT</ns2:Identifier>
             <ns2:EndDate xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
             <ns2:Stay xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
          </ns2:Accommodation>
       </ns2:Service>
    </ns2:Services>

Which could be written more concise as:

    <ns2:Services>
          <ns2:Accommodation>
             <ns2:Identifier>DUMMY_TEST_RESULT</ns2:Identifier>
             <ns2:EndDate xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
             <ns2:Stay xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
          </ns2:Accommodation>
    </ns2:Services>