My current implementation generates XML using JSPs, but the number of different record types I'm working with has grown and the number of JSP templates has become unwieldy to maintain.
So I coded up a solution using javax.xml.bind but quickly found that the code would compile but not run in OSGi. Long story short, there is a natively compiled dependency -- com.sun.* -- that is not included in the Felix boot classpath by default. Including this dependency is a matter of modifying sling.properties to include com.sun.* in the org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation config line. However, I'm working in a large corporate production environment so the thought of managing an extra configuration piece is not ideal.
So, the meat of my question: is there a better way to generate custom XML programmatically in Adobe CQ? Is there a different JAXB impl in the stack that I should be using, instead of javax.xml.bind? Is there another XML marshalling API that is more CQ/Felix friendly?
I've not got any concrete documentation on this yet, but it's possible to include com.sun.* without changing the Sling boot delegation.
I've done it in this pom.xml for a demo project using CXF in CQ5 as an OSGi service. It's either the <dependency> or the <Import-Package> in the maven-bundle-plugin.
The whole project is available on GitHub at https://github.com/antonyh/cq5-cxf - it builds, installs, and works without changes to boot delegation on CQ5.4 / CQ5.5.