uimaj-adapter-soap/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/adapter/soap/XmlSerializerFactory.java

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package org.apache.uima.adapter.soap;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.xml.rpc.encoding.Serializer;

import org.apache.axis.Constants;
import org.apache.axis.Version;
import org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializerFactory;
import org.apache.uima.adapter.soap.axis11.XmlSerializer_Axis11;

/**
 * An AxisSerializer factory that constructs instances of {@link XmlSerializer}.
 * 
 * 
 */
public class XmlSerializerFactory implements SerializerFactory {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = -6341240975976459158L;

  private Vector mechanisms;

  public Serializer getSerializerAs(String mechanismType) {
    // There is a binary incompatibility between Axis v1.1 and
    // Axis v1.2 in the serializer/deserializer libraries.
    // So that UIMA can support both Axis versions, we have different
    // versions of each of our serializer classes. Here we check the
    // Axis version number and return an insance of the correct class.
    String ver = Version.getVersion();
    if (ver.startsWith("Apache Axis version: 1.1")) {
      return new XmlSerializer_Axis11();
    } else {
      return new XmlSerializer();
    }
  }

  public Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes() {
    if (mechanisms == null) {
      mechanisms = new Vector();
      mechanisms.add(Constants.AXIS_SAX);
    }
    return mechanisms.iterator();
  }
}