Java and XML Data Binding
by Brett McLaughlin

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated August 26, 2002.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{Chapter 3} I just started working through the downloaded examples available at
http://www.newinstance.com/writing/javajaxb/javajaxb_examples/javajaxb_all.z
ip, and found a problem with the file
/javajaxb/ch03/src/bindingSchema/movies.xjs.

In line two, it says:
<xml-java-binding-schema version="1.0-ea">

This matches what the book says at the top of page 39, but is different page
111 of The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) version 0.21 and from
xjs.dtd as downloaded from java.sun.com with this version string:

  @(#)xjs.dtd	1.11 01/05/31

which contains the following attribute definition (without the hyphen):

<!ATTLIST xml-java-binding-schema
	version CDATA #FIXED "1.0ea"
>


(40)  4th line from bottom;
The line:
default-reference-collection-type="array"

will need to be changed to:
default-reference-collection-type="list"

and the java classes regenerated and recompiled to allow the example 4-3
 MovieServlet.java


(44)  Figure 3-2;
Filesystem layout does not show bindingSchema direcory. Looks like it should be
located under the varying Ch0? directories.


(45)  First "command line" under the Verifying Output section;
the line:
C:\dev\javajaxb\ch03\src>cd generated

Should be changed to:
C:\dev\javajaxb\ch03\src>cd ..\..
or
C:\dev\javajaxb\ch03\src>cd \dev\javajaxb


{45}  Second "command line" under the Verifying Output section;
The required JAR file should be specified on the command line (unless already added
to the CLASSPATH); the correct way of invoking the compilation process is as follows:

javac -classpath %JAXB_HOME%\lib\jaxb-rt-1.0-ea.jar -d build
ch03\src\generated\javajaxb\generated\movies\*.java


{53}  Example 4-1;
Given that we had changed the movie.dtd back on page 36 the movie.xml should look
like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE movies SYSTEM "movies.dtd">
<movies version="1.1">
  <movie title="Pitch Black" >
    <cast>
      <actor headliner="true">Vin Diesel</actor>
      <actor headliner="true">Radha Mitchell</actor>
      <actor>Vic Wilson</actor>
    </cast>
    <producer>Tom Engelman</producer>
  </movie>
  <movie title="Memento" director="Christopher Nolan">
    <cast>
      <actor headliner="true">Guy Pearce</actor>
      <actor headliner="true">Carrie-Ann Moss</actor>
    </cast>
    <producer>Suzanne Todd</producer>
    <producer>Jennifer Todd</producer>
  </movie>
</movies>


{118}  4th paragraph on page, first paragraph under heading "Installation and Setup";
The URL given for the Zeus project is incorrect.
The Zeus Data Binding project home page is http://zeus.enhydra.org
The sourcforge project for Zeus is zeus-db, but as at 20/07/02 this project did not
contain any files in CVS.