SkaringaSerializer.java

package org.prevayler.foundation.serialization;
import com.skaringa.javaxml.DeserializerException;
import com.skaringa.javaxml.NoImplementationException;
import com.skaringa.javaxml.ObjectTransformer;
import com.skaringa.javaxml.ObjectTransformerFactory;
import com.skaringa.javaxml.SerializerException;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/** 
 * Writes and reads objects using XML. This serializer can be used for snapshots, journals or both.
 * <p>This implementation requires the <a href="http://www.skaringa.com/">Skaringa</a>
 * Java and XML language binding framework which provides for Java object XML serialization.</p>
 * <p>Note that Skaringa has some dependencies of its own.  It requires the standard XML API's
 * (xml-apis.jar from the <a href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/">Apache Xerces2-j</a> project or j2sdk1.4+),
 * an XML Transformation engine (<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/">Apache Xalan-j</a>),
 * and a logging api (<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging.html">Apache Jakarta Commons Logging</a>),
 * and, if desired, a logging implementation (<a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/">Apache Log4j</a> or j2sdk1.4+ logging).</p>
 * <p>One more quick note.  j2sdk1.4+ comes with an old buggy version of Xalan which you should override using the
 * endorsed package override mechanism.  To do this, add your preferred version of xalan.jar to JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/endorsed.
 * You will need to create the 'endorsed' directory if it doesn't already exist.  That is the *only* way to override packages
 * that the JDK already provides in j2sdk1.4.x and above.  In JDK1.3.x, this isn't a problem, although you will need to supply
 * everything mentioned above on the classpath.</p>
 */
public class SkaringaSerializer implements Serializer {
  public void writeObject(  OutputStream stream,  Object object) throws IOException {
    try {
      createTransformer().serialize(object,new StreamResult(stream));
    }
 catch (    SerializerException se) {
      throw new IOException("Unable to serialize with Skaringa: " + se.getMessage());
    }
  }
  public Object readObject(  InputStream stream) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
    try {
      return createTransformer().deserialize(new StreamSource(stream));
    }
 catch (    DeserializerException de) {
      throw new IOException("Unable to deserialize with Skaringa: " + de.getMessage());
    }
  }
  protected ObjectTransformer createTransformer() throws IOException {
    try {
      return ObjectTransformerFactory.getInstance().getImplementation();
    }
 catch (    NoImplementationException nie) {
      throw new IOException("Unable to start Skaringa: " + nie.getMessage());
    }
  }
}