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Marcel Hauf pisze:

> My current problem is I don´t know how much I should create with the
> generator and what.
> I would create the classes from the xml file (protocol, packet,...) and
> for the classes some getters, setters like llnz wrote me.
> Also he wrote me that the generated library should create frames. As I
> understand frames are network packets, aren´t they?
> So best would be that incoming frames triggers events and out going
> frames should be created via a method?
> Should I only create one protocol library which only has the protocol
> handling like the frames and a separate client library?
> Or should I include the connection part and the rest, too?

The libtpproto-java already contains a generator that converts protocol
description files to class files (for frames, which indeed are over-the-wire
packets). The generator is supposed to be target-language-agnostic, so maybe
you could use it. You'd need to implement one interface, which, in spite
being only single, unfortunately is not the most straighforward and easily
understandable, but I think it would be easier to use it than to create
another parser/generator. Maybe if I added some documentation about the flow
of invocations... :)
As for the rest, the core of libtpproto-java (which is separate from the
frame handling) is rather small and might be a good thing to rip off from ;)
-- 
KS
"To an engineer, everyone looks like a chimp" - Dilbert

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