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Introduction

The TIP Soap Generator is a sub project of the TIP Framework, which is being developed as part of JOSIF.
The purpose of the TIP Soap Generator is to generate the SOAP-based protocol specific artifacts from the following TIP Tigerstripe projects:

The TIP_Generator_Internal_Model with all its implicit TIP Interface meta-data definitions,
The TIP_Common_Model with all its TIP common explicit TIP Interface meta-data definitions,
All the TIP_Interfaces Model projects

The generated SOAP-based protocol specific artifacts include:

WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) v1.1 from W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) and the following two profiles:
- the SOAP/HTTP binding for standard-based Web Services specifications and Internet HTTP transport/communication protocol.
- Future the SOAP/JMS binding for Web Services specifications using a Java Message Service API as transport/communication protocol.
XSD (XML Schema Definition) v1.0 from W3C (http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#dev) for all XML-based data structure definitions

TS Model to XML Mapping Rules

Mapping rules documentation sections

Section	Content
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part I	general mapping mules and mapping rules for packages and entities
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part II	mapping rules for associations and association classes
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part III	mapping rules for datatypes, exceptions, notifications, enumerations, and primitives
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part IV	mapping rules for session facades, parameters, operations, and mapping rules for SOAP bindings
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part V	mapping rules for enabling WS notification
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part VI	mapping rules related to bulk transfer
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part VII	mapping rules related to Filters
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part VIII	mapping rules related to EID
TIP Soap Generator Mapping Rules - Part IX	mapping rules related with Common Operations

XSD Documentation Display Rules

display roles

Section	Content
Display Rules	the display rules for the XSD documentation

External XSD support

display roles

Section	Content
External XSD	the support for external XSDs in SOAP generator

Code Access

Variables

The generator needs some values of variables to be provided by model projects. Here we give description and default value of these variables. Please note that some variables are possibly moved into the generator in next releases, and not need to exposure to the users.

Plugin Settings table

Variable	Description	Default Value
ROOT_PKG	the root package of all TIP model. That is, any packages, any artifacts are enclosed by the root package or its children	org.tmforum.tip
ROOT_XMLNS	The root XML namespace for all TIP specifications	http://www.tmforum.org/xml/tip
COMMON_MODEL_MODEL_ID	the model id of TIP Common Model	tip_common_model
COMMON_MODEL_VER	the version of TIP Common Model	0.1
COMMON_MODEL_PKG	the root package of TIP Common Model	org.tmforum.tip.common
INTERNAL_MODEL_MODEL_ID	the model id of TIP Generator Internal Model	tip_generator_internal_model
INTERNAL_MODEL_PKG	the package where EntityIdentifier is defined	org.tmforum.tip.internal.entity
COMMON_ENTITY_ID	the fully qualified name of EntityIdentifier	org.tmforum.tip.internal.entity.EntityIdentifier
COMMON_ENTITY_BASE	the fully qualified name of EntityBase entity	org.tmforum.tip.internal.entity.EntityBase
COMMON_EVENT_BASE	the fully qualified name of NotificationBase	org.tmforum.tip.common.notifications.NotificationBase
COMMON_EXCEPTION_BASE	the fully qualified name of ExceptionBase	org.tmforum.tip.common.exceptions.ExceptionBase
MODEL_SHORT_NAME	the short name of the TIP model. It will be used as first part of the names of the generated XSD and WSDL files	none
DEPENDENCY_MODEL_SHORT_NAME	the short name of the dependency model. Every TIP model project will have at most 1 dependency model besides TIP common model. When we run the generator for the TIP model, some XSD files are possibly generated from the dependency model. The short name will be the first part of the names of the XSD files to indicate they are from dependency model	dep
INJECT_EXCEPTIONS	a boolean to indicate if we inject pre-exceptions to every operation in WSDL	true

Notes:

Example of MODEL_SHORT_NAME for TIP SPM model, if we take its short name as 'spm', then the short name will appear at the first part of the file names such as 'spm_service_problem_serviceprobleminterface.wsdl'.

Following picture shows a sample configuration.