Moving 2.x trunk

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diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataBinding.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * DataBinding represents a data representation, for example, SDO, JAXB and AXIOM
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface DataBinding {
+    /**
+     * A special databinding for input message of an operation
+     */
+    String IDL_INPUT = "idl:input";
+    /**
+     * A special databinding for output message of an operation
+     */
+    String IDL_OUTPUT = "idl:output";
+    /**
+     * A special databinding for fault message of an operation
+     */
+    String IDL_FAULT = "idl:fault";
+    /**
+     * The name of a databinding should be case-insensitive and unique
+     * 
+     * @return The name of the databinding
+     */
+    String getName();
+
+    /**
+     * Introspect and populate information to a DataType model
+     * 
+     * @param dataType The data type to be introspected
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @return true if the databinding has recognized the given data type
+     */
+    boolean introspect(DataType dataType, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Introspect the data to figure out the corresponding data type
+     * 
+     * @param value The object to be checked
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @return The DataType or null if the java type is not supported by this databinding
+     */
+    DataType introspect(Object value, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Provide a WrapperHandler for this databinding
+     * @return A wrapper handler which can handle wrapping/wrapping for this databinding
+     */
+    WrapperHandler getWrapperHandler();
+
+    /**
+     * Make a copy of the object for "pass-by-value" semantics.
+     *
+     * @param object source object to copy 
+     * @param dataType The data type
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @return copy of the object passed in as argument
+     */
+    Object copy(Object object, DataType dataType, Operation operation);
+    
+    /**
+     * Get the XML type helper for Java types
+     * @return The databinding-specific XML type helper class
+     */
+    XMLTypeHelper getXMLTypeHelper();
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataBindingExtensionPoint.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataBindingExtensionPoint.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * An extension point for data binding extensions.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface DataBindingExtensionPoint {
+
+    /**
+     * Register a data binding
+     * 
+     * @param dataBinding
+     */
+    void addDataBinding(DataBinding dataBinding);
+
+    /**
+     * Look up a data binding by id
+     * 
+     * @param id The name of the databinding
+     * @return The databinding
+     */
+    DataBinding getDataBinding(String id);
+
+    /**
+     * Unregister a data binding
+     * 
+     * @param id
+     * @return The unregistered databinding
+     */
+    DataBinding removeDataBinding(String id);
+
+    /**
+     * Introspect the java class to figure out what DataType supports it.
+     * 
+     * @param dataType The initial data type
+     * @param operation TODO
+     * @return A DataType representing the java type or null if no databinding
+     *         recognizes the java type
+     */
+    boolean introspectType(DataType dataType, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Introspect the value to figure out the corresponding DataType
+     * 
+     * @param value The object value
+     * @param operation TODO
+     * @return A DataType representing the value or null if no databinding
+     *         recognizes the value
+     */
+    DataType introspectType(Object value, Operation operation);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataPipe.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataPipe.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * Data pipe allows a data source pushes data into its sink and pipe the data into its result
+ * 
+ * @param <S> The data binding type of the sink
+ * @param <R> The data binding type of the result
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface DataPipe<S, R> {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a sink (for example, java.io.OutputStream, java.io.Writer or org.xml.sax.ContentHandler) to receive data
+     * pushed by the source
+     * 
+     * @return The sink to consume data
+     */
+    S getSink();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the data populated by the sink
+     * 
+     * @return
+     */
+    R getResult();
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataPipeTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataPipeTransformer.java
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+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DataPipeTransformer.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * Data pipe allows a data source pushes data into its sink and pipe the data into its result
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface DataPipeTransformer<S, R> extends Transformer {
+
+    DataPipe<S, R> newInstance();
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.GenericArrayType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans.JavaBeansDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans.JavaExceptionDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility.ServiceDeclaration;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility.ServiceDiscovery;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.impl.DataTypeImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * The default implementation of a data binding extension point.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint implements DataBindingExtensionPoint {
+    private ExtensionPointRegistry registry;
+    private final Map<String, DataBinding> bindings = new HashMap<String, DataBinding>();
+    private final List<DataBinding> databindings = new ArrayList<DataBinding>();
+    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint.class.getName());
+    private boolean loadedDataBindings;
+
+    public DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint() {
+    }
+
+    public DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        this.registry = registry;
+    }
+
+    public DataBinding getDataBinding(String id) {
+        if (id == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        DataBinding dataBinding = bindings.get(id.toLowerCase());
+        if (dataBinding == null) {
+            loadDataBindings();
+            dataBinding = bindings.get(id.toLowerCase());
+        }
+        return dataBinding;
+    }
+
+    public void addDataBinding(DataBinding dataBinding) {
+        if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINE)) {
+            String className = dataBinding.getClass().getName();
+            boolean lazy = false;
+            if (dataBinding instanceof LazyDataBinding) {
+                className = ((LazyDataBinding)dataBinding).dataBindingDeclaration.getClassName();
+                lazy = true;
+            }
+            logger.fine("Adding databinding: " + className + ";name=" + dataBinding.getName() + ",lazy=" + lazy);
+        }
+        databindings.add(dataBinding);
+        bindings.put(dataBinding.getName().toLowerCase(), dataBinding);
+
+    }
+
+    public DataBinding removeDataBinding(String id) {
+        if (id == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        DataBinding dataBinding = bindings.remove(id.toLowerCase());
+        if (dataBinding != null) {
+            databindings.remove(dataBinding);
+        }
+        return dataBinding;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Dynamically load data bindings declared under META-INF/services
+     */
+    private synchronized void loadDataBindings() {
+        if (loadedDataBindings)
+            return;
+
+        // Get the databinding service declarations
+        Collection<ServiceDeclaration> dataBindingDeclarations;
+        try {
+            dataBindingDeclarations = registry.getServiceDiscovery().getServiceDeclarations(DataBinding.class.getName());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+
+        // Load data bindings
+        for (ServiceDeclaration dataBindingDeclaration : dataBindingDeclarations) {
+            Map<String, String> attributes = dataBindingDeclaration.getAttributes();
+            String name = attributes.get("name");
+
+            // Create a data binding wrapper and register it
+            DataBinding dataBinding = new LazyDataBinding(name, dataBindingDeclaration);
+            addDataBinding(dataBinding);
+        }
+
+        loadedDataBindings = true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A data binding facade allowing data bindings to be lazily loaded and
+     * initialized.
+     */
+    private class LazyDataBinding implements DataBinding {
+
+        private String name;
+        private ServiceDeclaration dataBindingDeclaration;
+        private DataBinding dataBinding;
+
+        private LazyDataBinding(String type, ServiceDeclaration dataBindingDeclaration) {
+            this.name = type;
+            this.dataBindingDeclaration = dataBindingDeclaration;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Load and instantiate the data binding class.
+         *
+         * @return The data binding.
+         */
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        private DataBinding getDataBinding() {
+            if (dataBinding == null) {
+                try {
+                    Class<DataBinding> dataBindingClass = (Class<DataBinding>)dataBindingDeclaration.loadClass();
+                    try {
+                        Constructor<DataBinding> constructor = dataBindingClass.getConstructor();
+                        dataBinding = constructor.newInstance();
+                    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+                        Constructor<DataBinding> constructor =
+                            dataBindingClass.getConstructor(ExtensionPointRegistry.class);
+                        dataBinding = constructor.newInstance(DefaultDataBindingExtensionPoint.this.registry);
+                    }
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            return dataBinding;
+        }
+
+        public Object copy(Object object, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+            return getDataBinding().copy(object, dataType, operation);
+        }
+
+        public String getName() {
+            return name;
+        }
+
+        public XMLTypeHelper getXMLTypeHelper() {
+            return getDataBinding().getXMLTypeHelper();
+        }
+
+        public WrapperHandler getWrapperHandler() {
+            return getDataBinding().getWrapperHandler();
+        }
+
+        public boolean introspect(DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+            return getDataBinding().introspect(dataType, operation);
+        }
+
+        public DataType introspect(Object value, Operation operation) {
+            return getDataBinding().introspect(value, operation);
+        }
+    }
+
+    //FIXME The following methods should not be on the extension point
+    // they should be on a separate class
+    public boolean introspectType(DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        loadDataBindings();
+        for (DataBinding binding : databindings) {
+            // don't introspect for JavaBeansDatabinding as all javatypes will
+            // anyways match to its basetype
+            // which is java.lang.Object. Default to this only if no databinding
+            // results
+            if (!binding.getName().equals(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME)) {
+                if (binding.introspect(dataType, operation)) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        // FIXME: Should we honor the databinding from operation/interface
+        // level?
+        Class<?> physical = dataType.getPhysical();
+        if (physical == Object.class) {
+            dataType.setDataBinding(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME);
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (dataType.getPhysical().isArray()) {
+            introspectArray(dataType, operation);
+            return true;
+        } else if (Throwable.class.isAssignableFrom(physical)) {
+            dataType.setDataBinding(JavaExceptionDataBinding.NAME);
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            dataType.setDataBinding(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME);
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean introspectArray(DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        Class<?> physical = dataType.getPhysical();
+        if (!physical.isArray() || physical == byte[].class) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Class<?> componentType = physical.getComponentType();
+        Type genericComponentType = componentType;
+        if(dataType.getGenericType() instanceof GenericArrayType) {
+            genericComponentType = ((GenericArrayType) dataType.getGenericType()).getGenericComponentType();
+        }
+        DataType logical = new DataTypeImpl(dataType.getDataBinding(), componentType, genericComponentType, dataType.getLogical());
+        introspectType(logical, operation);
+        dataType.setDataBinding("java:array");
+        dataType.setLogical(logical);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public DataType introspectType(Object value, Operation operation) {
+        loadDataBindings();
+        DataType dataType = null;
+        for (DataBinding binding : databindings) {
+            // don't introspect for JavaBeansDatabinding as all javatypes will
+            // anyways match to its basetype
+            // which is java.lang.Object. Default to this only if no databinding
+            // results
+            if (!binding.getName().equals(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME)) {
+                dataType = binding.introspect(value, operation);
+            }
+            if (dataType != null) {
+                return dataType;
+            }
+        }
+        return new DataTypeImpl<XMLType>(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME, value.getClass(), XMLType.UNKNOWN);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DefaultTransformerExtensionPoint.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/DefaultTransformerExtensionPoint.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.DirectedGraph;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility.ServiceDeclaration;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility.ServiceDiscovery;
+
+/**
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class DefaultTransformerExtensionPoint implements TransformerExtensionPoint {
+    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DefaultTransformerExtensionPoint.class.getName());
+    private boolean loadedTransformers;
+
+    private ExtensionPointRegistry registry;
+    private final DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer> graph = new DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer>();
+
+    public DefaultTransformerExtensionPoint(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        this.registry = registry;
+    }
+
+    public void addTransformer(String sourceType, String resultType, int weight, Transformer transformer, boolean publicTransformer) {
+        if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINE)) {
+            String className = transformer.getClass().getName();
+            boolean lazy = false;
+            boolean pull = (transformer instanceof PullTransformer);
+            if (transformer instanceof LazyPullTransformer) {
+                className = ((LazyPullTransformer)transformer).transformerDeclaration.getClassName();
+                lazy = true;
+            }
+            if (transformer instanceof LazyPushTransformer) {
+                className = ((LazyPushTransformer)transformer).transformerDeclaration.getClassName();
+                lazy = true;
+            }
+
+            logger.fine("Adding transformer: " + className
+                + ";source="
+                + sourceType
+                + ",target="
+                + resultType
+                + ",weight="
+                + weight
+                + ",type="
+                + (pull ? "pull" : "push")
+                + ",lazy="
+                + lazy);
+        }
+        graph.addEdge(sourceType, resultType, transformer, weight, publicTransformer);
+    }
+
+    public void addTransformer(Transformer transformer, boolean publicTransformer) {
+        addTransformer(transformer.getSourceDataBinding(),
+                       transformer.getTargetDataBinding(),
+                       transformer.getWeight(),
+                       transformer, publicTransformer);
+    }
+
+    public boolean removeTransformer(String sourceType, String resultType) {
+        return graph.removeEdge(sourceType, resultType);
+    }
+
+    public Transformer getTransformer(String sourceType, String resultType) {
+        loadTransformers();
+
+        DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer>.Edge edge = graph.getEdge(sourceType, resultType);
+        return (edge == null) ? null : edge.getValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Dynamically load transformers registered under META-INF/services.
+     *
+     */
+    private synchronized void loadTransformers() {
+        if (loadedTransformers) {
+            return;
+        }
+        loadedTransformers = true;
+        loadTransformers(PullTransformer.class);
+        loadTransformers(PushTransformer.class);
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Dynamically load transformers registered under META-INF/services.
+     *
+     * @param transformerClass
+     */
+    private synchronized void loadTransformers(Class<?> transformerClass) {
+
+        // Get the transformer service declarations
+        Collection<ServiceDeclaration> transformerDeclarations;
+
+        try {
+            transformerDeclarations = registry.getServiceDiscovery().getServiceDeclarations(transformerClass.getName());
+
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+
+        // Load transformers
+        for (ServiceDeclaration transformerDeclaration : transformerDeclarations) {
+            Map<String, String> attributes = transformerDeclaration.getAttributes();
+
+            String source = attributes.get("source");
+            String target = attributes.get("target");
+            int weight = Integer.valueOf(attributes.get("weight"));
+            String b = attributes.get("public");
+            boolean pub = true;
+            if (b != null) {
+                pub = Boolean.valueOf(b);
+            }
+
+            // Create a transformer wrapper and register it
+            Transformer transformer;
+            if (transformerClass == PullTransformer.class) {
+                transformer = new LazyPullTransformer(source, target, weight, transformerDeclaration);
+            } else {
+                transformer = new LazyPushTransformer(source, target, weight, transformerDeclaration);
+            }
+            addTransformer(transformer, pub);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A transformer facade allowing transformers to be lazily loaded
+     * and initialized.
+     */
+    private class LazyPullTransformer implements PullTransformer<Object, Object> {
+
+        private String source;
+        private String target;
+        private int weight;
+        private ServiceDeclaration transformerDeclaration;
+        private PullTransformer<Object, Object> transformer;
+
+        public LazyPullTransformer(String source, String target, int weight, ServiceDeclaration transformerDeclaration) {
+            this.source = source;
+            this.target = target;
+            this.weight = weight;
+            this.transformerDeclaration = transformerDeclaration;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Load and instantiate the transformer class.
+         *
+         * @return The transformer.
+         */
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        private PullTransformer<Object, Object> getTransformer() {
+            if (transformer == null) {
+                try {
+                    Class<PullTransformer<Object, Object>> transformerClass =
+                        (Class<PullTransformer<Object, Object>>)transformerDeclaration.loadClass();
+                    try {
+                        Constructor<PullTransformer<Object, Object>> constructor = transformerClass.getConstructor();
+                        transformer = constructor.newInstance();
+                    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+                        Constructor<PullTransformer<Object, Object>> constructor =
+                            transformerClass.getConstructor(ExtensionPointRegistry.class);
+                        transformer = constructor.newInstance(registry);
+                    }
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            return transformer;
+        }
+
+        public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+            return source;
+        }
+
+        public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+            return target;
+        }
+
+        public int getWeight() {
+            return weight;
+        }
+
+        public Object transform(Object source, TransformationContext context) {
+            return getTransformer().transform(source, context);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(super.toString());
+            sb.append(";className=").append(transformerDeclaration.getClassName());
+            return sb.toString();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A transformer facade allowing transformers to be lazily loaded
+     * and initialized.
+     */
+    private class LazyPushTransformer implements PushTransformer<Object, Object> {
+
+        private String source;
+        private String target;
+        private int weight;
+        private ServiceDeclaration transformerDeclaration;
+        private PushTransformer<Object, Object> transformer;
+
+        public LazyPushTransformer(String source, String target, int weight, ServiceDeclaration transformerDeclaration) {
+            this.source = source;
+            this.target = target;
+            this.weight = weight;
+            this.transformerDeclaration = transformerDeclaration;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Load and instantiate the transformer class.
+         *
+         * @return The transformer.
+         */
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        private PushTransformer<Object, Object> getTransformer() {
+            if (transformer == null) {
+                try {
+                    Class<PushTransformer<Object, Object>> transformerClass =
+                        (Class<PushTransformer<Object, Object>>)transformerDeclaration.loadClass();
+                    try {
+                        Constructor<PushTransformer<Object, Object>> constructor = transformerClass.getConstructor();
+                        transformer = constructor.newInstance();
+                    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+                        Constructor<PushTransformer<Object, Object>> constructor =
+                            transformerClass.getConstructor(ExtensionPointRegistry.class);
+                        transformer = constructor.newInstance(registry);
+                    }
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            return transformer;
+        }
+
+        public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+            return source;
+        }
+
+        public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+            return target;
+        }
+
+        public int getWeight() {
+            return weight;
+        }
+
+        public void transform(Object source, Object sink, TransformationContext context) {
+            getTransformer().transform(source, sink, context);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(super.toString());
+            sb.append(";className=").append(transformerDeclaration.getClassName());
+            return sb.toString();
+        }
+    }
+
+    //FIXME The following methods should be on a different class from
+    // extension point
+
+    public List<Transformer> getTransformerChain(String sourceType, String resultType) {
+        loadTransformers();
+
+        String source = sourceType;
+        String result = resultType;
+        List<Transformer> transformers = new ArrayList<Transformer>();
+        // First check if there is a direct path, if yes, use it regardless of the weight
+        DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer>.Edge link = graph.getEdge(sourceType, resultType);
+        if (link != null) {
+            transformers.add(link.getValue());
+        } else {
+            DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer>.Path path = graph.getShortestPath(source, result);
+            if (path == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            for (DirectedGraph<Object, Transformer>.Edge edge : path.getEdges()) {
+                transformers.add(edge.getValue());
+            }
+        }
+        return transformers;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        loadTransformers();
+
+        return graph.toString();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Mediator.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Mediator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8184d739a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Mediator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * This interface will be used as a Tuscany system service to perform data mediations
+ *
+ * Mediate the data from one type to the other one
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface Mediator {
+
+    /**
+     * Mediate the data from the source type to the target type
+     * @param source The data to be mediated
+     * @param sourceDataType Data type for the source data
+     * @param targetDataType Data type for the target data
+     * @param context
+     * @return
+     */
+    Object mediate(Object source, DataType sourceDataType, DataType targetDataType, Map<String, Object> context);
+
+    /**
+     * Mediate the source data into the target which is a sink to receive the data
+     * @param source The data to be mediated
+     * @param target The sink to receive data
+     * @param sourceDataType Data type for the source data
+     * @param targetDataType Data type for the target data
+     */
+    void mediate(Object source,
+                 Object target,
+                 DataType sourceDataType,
+                 DataType targetDataType,
+                 Map<String, Object> context);
+
+    /**
+     * Transform the input parameters for the source operation to the expected parameters for
+     * the target operation
+     * @param input The input data, typically an array of parameters
+     * @param sourceOperation The source operation
+     * @param targetOperation The target operation
+     * @param metadata Additional metadata
+     * @return The transformed input data for the target operation
+     */
+    Object mediateInput(Object input, Operation sourceOperation, Operation targetOperation, Map<String, Object> metadata);
+
+    /**
+     * Transform the return value for the target operation to the expected return value for
+     * the source operation
+     * @param output The output data, typically the return value
+     * @param sourceOperation The source operation
+     * @param targetOperation The target operation
+     * @param metadata Additional metadata
+     * @return The transformed output data for the source operation
+     */
+    Object mediateOutput(Object output,
+                         Operation sourceOperation,
+                         Operation targetOperation,
+                         Map<String, Object> metadata);
+
+    /**
+     * Transform the fault data for the target operation to the expected fault data for
+     * the source operation
+     * @param fault The fault data, such as Java exception or fault message
+     * @param sourceOperation The source operation
+     * @param targetOperation The target operation
+     * @param metadata Additional metadata
+     * @return The transformed fault data for the source operation
+     */
+    Object mediateFault(Object fault, Operation sourceOperation, Operation targetOperation, Map<String, Object> metadata);
+
+    /**
+     * Copy the data
+     * @param data The orginal data
+     * @param dataType The data type
+     * @return The copy
+     */
+    Object copy(Object data, DataType dataType);
+
+    /**
+     * Copy an array of data objects passed to an operation
+     * @param data array of objects to copy
+     * @return the copy
+     */
+    public Object copyInput(Object input, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Copy the output data
+     * @param data The orginal output
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @return The copy
+     */
+    Object copyOutput(Object data, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Copy the fault data
+     * @param fault The orginal fault data
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @return The copy
+     */
+    Object copyFault(Object fault, Operation operation);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the DataBindings used by this mediator.
+     * @return
+     */
+    DataBindingExtensionPoint getDataBindings();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the Transformers used by this mediator.
+     * @return
+     */
+    TransformerExtensionPoint getTransformers();
+
+    /**
+     * Create an instance of TransformationContext
+     * @return
+     */
+    TransformationContext createTransformationContext();
+
+    /**
+     * Create an instance of TransformationContext
+     * @param sourceDataType
+     * @param targetDataType
+     * @param metadata
+     * @return
+     */
+    TransformationContext createTransformationContext(DataType sourceDataType,
+                                                      DataType targetDataType,
+                                                      Map<String, Object> metadata);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PullTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PullTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81264923eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PullTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * PullTransformer transforms data from one binding format to the other one which can be directly consumed
+ * 
+ * @param <S> The source data type
+ * @param <R> the target data type
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface PullTransformer<S, R> extends Transformer {
+    /**
+     * Transform source data into the result type.
+     * 
+     * @param source The source data
+     * @param context The context for the transformation
+     * @return The transformed result
+     */
+    R transform(S source, TransformationContext context);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PushTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PushTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..600a6477f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/PushTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * A transformer that pushes data from its source into the sink
+ * 
+ * @param <S>
+ * @param <R>
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface PushTransformer<S, R> extends Transformer {
+    /**
+     * @param source The source data
+     * @param sink The sink to receive the data 
+     * @param context
+     */
+    void transform(S source, R sink, TransformationContext context);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/SimpleTypeMapper.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/SimpleTypeMapper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ece8027c29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/SimpleTypeMapper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+
+/**
+ * Type Mapper between XML schema simple data types and java objects
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface SimpleTypeMapper {
+    /**
+     * Parse the XML lexical representation into a java object 
+     * @param simpleType The XSD simple type
+     * @param value the XML lexical representation
+     * @param context The context of the transformation
+     * @return A java object for the XML value
+     */
+    Object toJavaObject(QName simpleType, String value, TransformationContext context);
+    /**
+     * Create the XML lexical representation for a java object
+     * @param simpleType The XSD simple type
+     * @param obj The java object
+     * @param context The context of the transformation
+     * @return The XML lexical representation
+     */
+    String toXMLLiteral(QName simpleType, Object obj, TransformationContext context);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the java type for a simple xml type
+     * @param xmlType
+     * @return
+     */
+    Class<?> getJavaType(QName xmlType);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the xml type for a java type
+     * @param javaType
+     * @return
+     */
+    TypeInfo getXMLType(Class<?> javaType);
+
+    /**
+     * Check if an xml type is a simple type
+     * @param xmlType
+     * @return
+     */
+    boolean isSimpleXSDType(QName xmlType);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationContext.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationContext.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ffadd1eae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationContext.java
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * Context for data transformation
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface TransformationContext {
+
+    /**
+     * @return
+     */
+    Operation getSourceOperation();
+
+    /**
+     * @param sourceOperation
+     */
+    void setSourceOperation(Operation sourceOperation);
+
+    /**
+     * @return
+     */
+    Operation getTargetOperation();
+
+    /**
+     * @param targetOperation
+     */
+    void setTargetOperation(Operation targetOperation);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the source data type
+     * 
+     * @return
+     */
+    DataType getSourceDataType();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the target data type
+     * 
+     * @return
+     */
+    DataType getTargetDataType();
+
+    /**
+     * Set the source data type
+     * 
+     * @param sourceDataType
+     */
+    void setSourceDataType(DataType sourceDataType);
+
+    /**
+     * Set the target data type
+     * 
+     * @param targetDataType
+     */
+    void setTargetDataType(DataType targetDataType);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the ClassLoader
+     * 
+     * @return Returns the ClassLoader
+     */
+    ClassLoader getClassLoader();
+
+    /**
+     * Get a map of metadata
+     * 
+     * @return Returns a map of the metadata
+     */
+    Map<String, Object> getMetadata();
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationException.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f949f7dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformationException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+
+/**
+ * Reports problems during data transformation
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class TransformationException extends RuntimeException {
+
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 7662385613693006428L;
+    private String sourceDataBinding;
+    private String targetDataBinding;
+
+    public TransformationException() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    public TransformationException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+    }
+
+    public TransformationException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    public TransformationException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return sourceDataBinding;
+    }
+
+    public void setSourceDataBinding(String sourceDataBinding) {
+        this.sourceDataBinding = sourceDataBinding;
+    }
+
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return targetDataBinding;
+    }
+
+    public void setTargetDataBinding(String targetDataBinding) {
+        this.targetDataBinding = targetDataBinding;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Transformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Transformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2aa0ad7c15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/Transformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * A transformer provides the data transformation from source type to target type. The cost of the transformation is
+ * modelled as weight.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface Transformer {
+    /**
+     * Get the source type that this transformer transforms data from. The type is used as the key when the transformer
+     * is registered with TransformerRegistry.
+     * 
+     * @return A key identifying the source type
+     */
+    String getSourceDataBinding();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the target type that this transformer transforms data into. The type is used as the key when the transformer
+     * is registered with TransformerRegistry.
+     * 
+     * @return A key identifying the target type
+     */
+    String getTargetDataBinding();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the cost of the transformation. The weight can be used to choose the most efficient path if there are more
+     * than one available from the source to the target.
+     * 
+     * @return An integer representing the cost of the transformation
+     */
+    int getWeight();
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformerExtensionPoint.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformerExtensionPoint.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee7efe4860
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/TransformerExtensionPoint.java
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * An extension point for data transformer extensions.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface TransformerExtensionPoint {
+
+    /**
+     * Register a transformer
+     * 
+     * @param sourceDataBinding
+     * @param targetDataBinding
+     * @param weight
+     * @param transformer
+     * @param publicTransformer TODO
+     */
+    void addTransformer(String sourceDataBinding,
+                        String targetDataBinding,
+                        int weight,
+                        Transformer transformer,
+                        boolean publicTransformer);
+
+    /**
+     * Register a transformer
+     * 
+     * @param transformer
+     * @param publicTransformer TODO
+     */
+    void addTransformer(Transformer transformer, boolean publicTransformer);
+
+    /**
+     * Unregister a transformer
+     * 
+     * @param sourceDataBinding
+     * @param targetDataBinding
+     * @return
+     */
+    boolean removeTransformer(String sourceDataBinding, String targetDataBinding);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the direct Transformer which can transform data from source type to
+     * result type
+     * 
+     * @param sourceDataBinding
+     * @param targetDataBinding
+     * @return
+     */
+    Transformer getTransformer(String sourceDataBinding, String targetDataBinding);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the a chain of Transformers which can transform data from source type
+     * to result type
+     * 
+     * @param sourceDataBinding
+     * @param targetDataBinding
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<Transformer> getTransformerChain(String sourceDataBinding, String targetDataBinding);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/WrapperHandler.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/WrapperHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee4e35555c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/WrapperHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * A contract for transformers to deal with wrapping/unwrapping for WSDL wrapper style operations
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface WrapperHandler<T> {
+    /**
+     * Create a wrapper element
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @param input Is it for input or output
+     * @return An object representing the wrapper element
+     */
+    T create(Operation operation, boolean input);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the data type for the wrapper
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @param input Is it for input or output?
+     * @return The data type of the wrapper, null if it's not a wrapper type
+     */
+    DataType getWrapperType(Operation operation, boolean input);
+
+    /**
+     * Check if the given data is an instance of the wrapper
+     * @param wrapper
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @param input Input or output
+     * @return
+     */
+    boolean isInstance(Object wrapper, Operation operation, boolean input);
+
+    /**
+     * Populate the wrapper element with the child objects
+     * @param wrapper The wrapper object
+     * @param childObjects The child objects
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @param input Is it for input or output
+     */
+    void setChildren(T wrapper,
+                            Object[] childObjects,
+                            Operation operation,
+                            boolean input);
+
+    /**
+     * Get a list of child elements from the wrapper
+     * @param wrapper The wrapper object
+     * @param operation The operation
+     * @param input Is it for input or output
+     * @return child elements under the wrapper
+     */
+    List getChildren(T wrapper, Operation operation, boolean input);
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/XMLTypeHelper.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/XMLTypeHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e940f8675f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/XMLTypeHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.contribution.resolver.ModelResolver;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Interface;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.xsd.XSDFactory;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.xsd.XSDefinition;
+
+/**
+ * XML and schema helper for Java types
+ */
+public interface XMLTypeHelper {
+
+    // FIXME: This method seems to require the XMLHelper instance to be stateful
+    /**
+     * Convert a Java type into XML type information 
+     * @param javaType the physical Java class
+     * @param logical the logical type information
+     * @return the XML type information
+     */
+    TypeInfo getTypeInfo(Class javaType, Object logical);
+
+    /**
+     * Get schema definitions for the Java types known to this helper
+     * @return A list of schema definitions
+     */
+    // List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver);
+    
+    /**
+     * Get a list of XML schemas for the given data types
+     * @param factory
+     * @param resolver
+     * @param dataTypes
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver, List<DataType> dataTypes);
+    /**
+     * Get a list of XML schemas for the given interface
+     * @param factory
+     * @param resolver
+     * @param intf
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver, Interface intf);
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4405077e29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.annotation;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Used to demarcate the mapping style for an interface or operation
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+// FIXME: [rfeng] We should consider to use javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding
+@Target({TYPE, METHOD})
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+public @interface DataBinding {
+
+    /**
+     * Indicate the effective databinding that controls the WSDL/Java mapping of the 
+     * interface/operation
+     * 
+     * @return the data binding with the MIME media type syntax
+     */
+    String value();
+    
+    /**
+     * Indicate if the operation is mapped using WRAPPED or BARE style. Originated from
+     * javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle: Determines whether method parameters 
+     * represent the entire message body, or whether the parameters are elements wrapped 
+     * inside a top-level element named after the operation
+     * 
+     * @return true if the parameter style is WRAPPED, false if BARE
+     */
+    boolean wrapped() default false;
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataType.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataType.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..650e909c61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/annotation/DataType.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.annotation;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.PARAMETER;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Used to demarcate expected data types for parameters and return type
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+@Target( {METHOD, PARAMETER})
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+public @interface DataType {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the data binding configuration in MIME media type syntax
+     * @return the data binding
+     */
+    String value();
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/externalizable/ExternalizableDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/externalizable/ExternalizableDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51ca792171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/externalizable/ExternalizableDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.externalizable;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+
+/**
+ * DataNinding for Externalizable objects.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class ExternalizableDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    
+    public static final String NAME = java.io.Externalizable.class.getName();
+
+    public ExternalizableDataBinding() {
+        super(NAME, java.io.Externalizable.class);
+    }
+
+    
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb9f2969e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.WrapperHandler;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.XMLTypeHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.impl.DataTypeImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Base Implementation of DataBinding
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class BaseDataBinding implements DataBinding {
+
+    private Class<?> baseType;
+
+    private String name;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a databinding with the base java type whose name will be used as
+     * the name of the databinding
+     * 
+     * @param baseType The base java class or interface representing the
+     *            databinding, for example, org.w3c.dom.Node
+     */
+    protected BaseDataBinding(Class<?> baseType) {
+        this(baseType.getName(), baseType);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a databinding with the name and base java type
+     * 
+     * @param name The name of the databinding
+     * @param baseType The base java class or interface representing the
+     *            databinding, for example, org.w3c.dom.Node
+     */
+    protected BaseDataBinding(String name, Class<?> baseType) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.baseType = baseType;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        assert type != null;
+        Class cls = type.getPhysical();
+        if (baseType != null && baseType.isAssignableFrom(cls)) {
+            type.setDataBinding(getName());
+            if (type.getLogical() == null) {
+                type.setLogical(XMLType.UNKNOWN);
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public DataType introspect(Object value, Operation operation) {
+        if (value == null) {
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            DataType<Class> dataType = new DataTypeImpl<Class>(value.getClass(), value.getClass());
+            if (introspect(dataType, (Operation) null)) {
+                return dataType;
+            } else {
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public final String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBinding#getWrapperHandler()
+     */
+    public WrapperHandler getWrapperHandler() {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public Object copy(Object object, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        return object;
+    }
+
+    public XMLTypeHelper getXMLTypeHelper() {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94a2cdb0bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/BaseTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.Transformer;
+
+/**
+ * Base Implementation of Transformer which provides the registration to the
+ * transformer registry
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class BaseTransformer<S, T> implements Transformer {
+
+    protected BaseTransformer() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    protected abstract Class<S> getSourceType();
+
+    protected abstract Class<T> getTargetType();
+
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return getSourceType().getName();
+    }
+
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return getTargetType().getName();
+    }
+
+    public int getWeight() {
+        // default to 50
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/DirectedGraph.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/DirectedGraph.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01916dfb96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/DirectedGraph.java
@@ -0,0 +1,452 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+
+/**
+ * Directed, weighted graph
+ * 
+ * @param <V> The type of vertex object
+ * @param <E> The type of edge object
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class DirectedGraph<V, E> implements Cloneable {
+    private final Map<V, Vertex> vertices = new HashMap<V, Vertex>();
+
+    /**
+     * Key for the shortest path cache
+     */
+    private final class VertexPair {
+        private Vertex source;
+
+        private Vertex target;
+
+        /**
+         * @param source
+         * @param target
+         */
+        private VertexPair(Vertex source, Vertex target) {
+            super();
+            this.source = source;
+            this.target = target;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean equals(Object object) {
+            if (!VertexPair.class.isInstance(object)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            VertexPair pair = (VertexPair)object;
+            return source == pair.source && target == pair.target;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int hashCode() {
+            int x = source == null ? 0 : source.hashCode();
+            int y = target == null ? 0 : target.hashCode();
+            return x ^ y;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    // Fix for TUSCANY-2069, making the map concurrent
+    private final Map<VertexPair, Path> paths = new ConcurrentHashMap<VertexPair, Path>();
+    private final Path NULL_PATH = new Path();
+
+    /**
+     * Vertex of a graph
+     */
+    public final class Vertex {
+        private V value;
+
+        // TODO: Do we want to support multiple edges for a vertex pair? If so,
+        // we should use a List instead of Map
+        private Map<Vertex, Edge> outEdges = new HashMap<Vertex, Edge>();
+        private Map<Vertex, Edge> inEdges = new HashMap<Vertex, Edge>();
+
+        private Vertex(V value) {
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return "(" + value + ")";
+        }
+
+        public V getValue() {
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        public Map<Vertex, Edge> getOutEdges() {
+            return outEdges;
+        }
+
+        public Map<Vertex, Edge> getInEdges() {
+            return inEdges;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * An Edge connects two vertices in one direction
+     */
+    public final class Edge {
+        private Vertex sourceVertex;
+
+        private Vertex targetVertex;
+
+        private E value;
+
+        private int weight;
+
+        private boolean pub = true;
+
+        public Edge(Vertex source, Vertex target, E value, int weight, boolean pub) {
+            this.sourceVertex = source;
+            this.targetVertex = target;
+            this.value = value;
+            this.weight = weight;
+            this.pub = pub;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return sourceVertex + "->" + targetVertex + "[" + value + "," + weight + "]";
+        }
+
+        public E getValue() {
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        public void setValue(E value) {
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+
+        public Vertex getTargetVertex() {
+            return targetVertex;
+        }
+
+        public void setTargetVertex(Vertex vertex) {
+            this.targetVertex = vertex;
+        }
+
+        public int getWeight() {
+            return weight;
+        }
+
+        public void setWeight(int weight) {
+            this.weight = weight;
+        }
+
+        public Vertex getSourceVertex() {
+            return sourceVertex;
+        }
+
+        public void setSourceVertex(Vertex sourceVertex) {
+            this.sourceVertex = sourceVertex;
+        }
+
+        public boolean isPublic() {
+            return pub;
+        }
+
+        public void setPublic(boolean pub) {
+            this.pub = pub;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class Node implements Comparable<Node> {
+
+        private long distance = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+
+        private Node previous; // NOPMD by rfeng on 9/26/06 9:17 PM
+
+        private Vertex vertex; // NOPMD by rfeng on 9/26/06 9:17 PM
+
+        private Node(Vertex vertex) {
+            this.vertex = vertex;
+        }
+
+        public int compareTo(Node o) {
+            return (distance > o.distance) ? 1 : ((distance == o.distance) ? 0 : -1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void addEdge(V source, V target, E edgeValue, int weight, boolean publicEdge) {
+        Vertex s = getVertex(source);
+        if (s == null) {
+            s = new Vertex(source);
+            vertices.put(source, s);
+        }
+        Vertex t = getVertex(target);
+        if (t == null) {
+            t = new Vertex(target);
+            vertices.put(target, t);
+        }
+        Edge edge = new Edge(s, t, edgeValue, weight, publicEdge);
+        s.outEdges.put(t, edge);
+        t.inEdges.put(s, edge);
+    }
+
+    public void addEdge(V soure, V target) {
+        addEdge(soure, target, null, 0, true);
+    }
+
+    public Vertex getVertex(V source) {
+        Vertex s = vertices.get(source);
+        return s;
+    }
+
+    public boolean removeEdge(V source, V target) {
+        Vertex s = getVertex(source);
+        if (s == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Vertex t = getVertex(target);
+        if (t == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return s.outEdges.remove(t) != null && t.inEdges.remove(s) != null;
+
+    }
+
+    public void removeEdge(Edge edge) {
+        edge.sourceVertex.outEdges.remove(edge.targetVertex);
+        edge.targetVertex.inEdges.remove(edge.sourceVertex);
+    }
+
+    public void removeVertex(Vertex vertex) {
+        vertices.remove(vertex.getValue());
+        for (Edge e : new ArrayList<Edge>(vertex.outEdges.values())) {
+            removeEdge(e);
+        }
+        for (Edge e : new ArrayList<Edge>(vertex.inEdges.values())) {
+            removeEdge(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Edge getEdge(Vertex source, Vertex target) {
+        return source.outEdges.get(target);
+    }
+
+    public Edge getEdge(V source, V target) {
+        Vertex sv = getVertex(source);
+        if (sv == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        Vertex tv = getVertex(target);
+        if (tv == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return getEdge(getVertex(source), getVertex(target));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the shortest path from the source vertex to the target vertex using
+     * Dijkstra's algorithm. If there's no path, null will be returned. If the
+     * source is the same as the target, it returns a path with empty edges with
+     * weight 0.
+     * 
+     * @param sourceValue The value identifies the source
+     * @param targetValue The value identifies the target
+     * @return The shortest path
+     */
+    public Path getShortestPath(V sourceValue, V targetValue) {
+        Vertex source = getVertex(sourceValue);
+        if (source == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        Vertex target = getVertex(targetValue);
+        if (target == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        VertexPair pair = new VertexPair(source, target);
+        Path path = null;
+        if (paths.containsKey(pair)) {
+            path = paths.get(pair);
+            return path == NULL_PATH? null: path;
+        }
+
+        // Check if there is a direct link, if yes, use it instead
+        Edge direct = getEdge(source, target);
+        path = new Path();
+        if (direct != null) {
+            path.addEdge(direct);
+            paths.put(pair, path);
+            return path;
+        }
+
+        Map<Vertex, Node> nodes = new HashMap<Vertex, Node>();
+        for (Vertex v : vertices.values()) {
+            Node node = new Node(v);
+            if (v == source) {
+                node.distance = 0;
+            }
+            nodes.put(v, node);
+        }
+
+        Set<Node> otherNodes = new HashSet<Node>(nodes.values());
+        Set<Node> nodesOnPath = new HashSet<Node>();
+        Node nextNode = null;
+        while (!otherNodes.isEmpty()) {
+            nextNode = extractMin(otherNodes);
+            if (nextNode.vertex == target) {
+                path = getPath(nextNode);
+                paths.put(pair, path); // Cache it
+                return path == NULL_PATH? null: path;
+            }
+            nodesOnPath.add(nextNode);
+            for (Edge edge : nextNode.vertex.outEdges.values()) {
+                Node adjacentNode = nodes.get(edge.targetVertex);
+                // The private edge can only be used if the edge connects to the target directly
+                if (edge.isPublic() || edge.getTargetVertex() == target) {
+                    if (nextNode.distance + edge.weight < adjacentNode.distance) {
+                        adjacentNode.distance = nextNode.distance + edge.weight;
+                        adjacentNode.previous = nextNode;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        paths.put(pair, NULL_PATH); // Cache it
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Searches for the vertex u in the vertex set Q that has the least d[u]
+     * value. That vertex is removed from the set Q and returned to the user.
+     * 
+     * @param nodes
+     * @return
+     */
+    private Node extractMin(Set<Node> nodes) {
+        Node node = Collections.min(nodes);
+        nodes.remove(node);
+        return node;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The path between two vertices
+     */
+    public final class Path {
+        private List<Edge> edges = new LinkedList<Edge>();
+
+        private int weight;
+
+        public int getWeight() {
+            return weight;
+        }
+
+        public List<Edge> getEdges() {
+            return edges;
+        }
+
+        public void addEdge(Edge edge) {
+            edges.add(0, edge);
+            weight += edge.weight;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return edges + ", " + weight;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Path getPath(Node t) {
+        if (t.distance == Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
+            return NULL_PATH;
+        }
+        Path path = new Path();
+        Node u = t;
+        while (u.previous != null) {
+            Edge edge = getEdge(u.previous.vertex, u.vertex);
+            path.addEdge(edge);
+            u = u.previous;
+        }
+        return path;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        for (Vertex v : vertices.values()) {
+            sb.append(v.outEdges.values()).append("\n");
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    public Map<V, Vertex> getVertices() {
+        return vertices;
+    }
+
+    public void addGraph(DirectedGraph<V, E> otherGraph) {
+        for (Vertex v : otherGraph.vertices.values()) {
+            for (Edge e : v.outEdges.values()) {
+                addEdge(e.sourceVertex.value, e.targetVertex.value, e.value, e.weight, true);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Vertex getFirst() {
+        for (Vertex v : vertices.values()) {
+            if (v.inEdges.isEmpty()) {
+                return v;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!vertices.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Circular ordering has been detected: " + toString());
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public List<V> topologicalSort(boolean readOnly) {
+        DirectedGraph<V, E> graph = (!readOnly) ? this : (DirectedGraph<V, E>)clone();
+        List<V> list = new ArrayList<V>();
+        while (true) {
+            Vertex v = graph.getFirst();
+            if (v == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            list.add(v.getValue());
+            graph.removeVertex(v);
+        }
+
+        return list;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object clone() {
+        DirectedGraph<V, E> copy = new DirectedGraph<V, E>();
+        copy.addGraph(this);
+        return copy;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Group2GroupTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Group2GroupTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95afd45380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Group2GroupTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.UtilityExtensionPoint;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.Mediator;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+
+/**
+ * This is a special transformer to transform the output from one IDL to the
+ * other one
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Group2GroupTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Object, Object> implements
+    PullTransformer<Object, Object> {
+
+    protected Mediator mediator;
+
+    /**
+     * @param wrapperHandler
+     */
+    public Group2GroupTransformer(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        this.mediator = registry.getExtensionPoint(UtilityExtensionPoint.class).getUtility(Mediator.class);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return GroupDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return GroupDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer#getSourceType()
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Object> getSourceType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer#getTargetType()
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Object> getTargetType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.Transformer#getWeight()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 10;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public Object transform(Object source, TransformationContext context) {
+        DataType<DataType> sourceType = context.getSourceDataType();
+        DataType<DataType> targetType = context.getTargetDataType();
+
+        return mediator.mediate(source, sourceType.getLogical(), targetType.getLogical(), context.getMetadata());
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/GroupDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/GroupDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70efd6a5c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/GroupDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * The base class for a special databinding which represents a group of other databindings
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class GroupDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    public static final String NAME = "databinding:group";
+
+    /**
+     * Marker type is a java class or interface representing the data format. 
+     */
+    protected Class[] markerTypes;
+
+    public GroupDataBinding(Class[] types) {
+        super(NAME, GroupDataBinding.class);
+        this.markerTypes = types;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        if (markerTypes == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Type physical = type.getPhysical();
+        if (physical instanceof ParameterizedType) {
+            physical = ((ParameterizedType)physical).getRawType();
+        }
+        if (!(physical instanceof Class)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Class cls = (Class)physical;
+        for (Class<?> c : markerTypes) {
+            if (isTypeOf(c, cls)) {
+                type.setDataBinding(getDataBinding(c));
+                Object logical = getLogical(cls, null);
+                if (logical != null) {
+                    type.setLogical(getLogical(cls, null));
+                } else {
+                    type.setLogical(XMLType.UNKNOWN);
+                }
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test if the given type is a subtype of the base type
+     * @param markerType
+     * @param type
+     * @return
+     */
+    protected boolean isTypeOf(Class<?> markerType, Class<?> type) {
+        return markerType.isAssignableFrom(type);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Derive the databinding name from a base class
+     * @param baseType
+     * @return
+     */
+    protected String getDataBinding(Class<?> baseType) {
+        return baseType.getName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the logical type
+     * @param type The java type
+     * @param operation TODO
+     * @return
+     */
+    protected abstract Object getLogical(Class<?> type, Operation operation);
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Java2SimpleTypeTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Java2SimpleTypeTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45896ca6a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/Java2SimpleTypeTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.SimpleTypeMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans.SimpleJavaDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a simple java object to a databinding's representation
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class Java2SimpleTypeTransformer<T> extends BaseTransformer<Object, T> implements
+        PullTransformer<Object, T> {
+
+    protected SimpleTypeMapper mapper;
+
+    public Java2SimpleTypeTransformer() {
+        this.mapper = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+    
+    public Java2SimpleTypeTransformer(SimpleTypeMapper mapper) {
+        this.mapper = (mapper != null) ? mapper : new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+
+    public T transform(Object source, TransformationContext context) {
+        XMLType xmlType = (XMLType) context.getTargetDataType().getLogical();
+        String text = mapper.toXMLLiteral(xmlType.getTypeName(), source, context);
+        return createElement(xmlType.getElementName(), text, context);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Object> getSourceType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 10000;
+    }
+
+    protected abstract T createElement(QName element, String literal, TransformationContext context);
+
+    @Override
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return SimpleJavaDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/MediatorImpl.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/MediatorImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..195c04e9c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/MediatorImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,581 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import static org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBinding.IDL_FAULT;
+import static org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBinding.IDL_OUTPUT;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.security.AccessController;
+import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.IdentityHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.UtilityExtensionPoint;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataBindingExtensionPoint;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.Mediator;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.Transformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformerExtensionPoint;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans.JavaBeansDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.FaultExceptionMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.impl.DataTypeImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.FaultException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+import org.oasisopen.sca.ServiceRuntimeException;
+
+
+/**
+ * Default Mediator implementation
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class MediatorImpl implements Mediator {
+    private static final String TARGET_OPERATION = "target.operation";
+    private static final String SOURCE_OPERATION = "source.operation";
+    private ExtensionPointRegistry registry;
+    private DataBindingExtensionPoint dataBindings;
+    private TransformerExtensionPoint transformers;
+    private FaultExceptionMapper faultExceptionMapper;
+
+    MediatorImpl(DataBindingExtensionPoint dataBindings, TransformerExtensionPoint transformers) {
+        this.dataBindings = dataBindings;
+        this.transformers = transformers;
+    }
+
+    public MediatorImpl(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        this.registry = registry;
+        this.dataBindings = registry.getExtensionPoint(DataBindingExtensionPoint.class);
+        this.transformers = registry.getExtensionPoint(TransformerExtensionPoint.class);
+        this.faultExceptionMapper =
+            registry.getExtensionPoint(UtilityExtensionPoint.class).getUtility(FaultExceptionMapper.class);
+
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public Object mediate(Object source, DataType sourceDataType, DataType targetDataType, Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        if (sourceDataType == null || sourceDataType.getDataBinding() == null) {
+            if (source != null) {
+                Operation operation = (Operation)metadata.get(SOURCE_OPERATION);
+                sourceDataType = dataBindings.introspectType(source, operation);
+            }
+        }
+        if (sourceDataType == null || targetDataType == null) {
+            return source;
+        } else if (sourceDataType.equals(targetDataType)) {
+            return source;
+        }
+
+        List<Transformer> path = getTransformerChain(sourceDataType, targetDataType);
+
+        Object result = source;
+        int size = path.size();
+        int i = 0;
+        while (i < size) {
+            Transformer transformer = path.get(i);
+            TransformationContext context =
+                createTransformationContext(sourceDataType, targetDataType, size, i, transformer, metadata);
+            // the source and target type
+            if (transformer instanceof PullTransformer) {
+                // For intermediate node, set data type to null
+                result = ((PullTransformer)transformer).transform(result, context);
+            } else if (transformer instanceof PushTransformer) {
+                DataPipeTransformer dataPipeFactory = (i < size - 1) ? (DataPipeTransformer)path.get(++i) : null;
+                DataPipe dataPipe = dataPipeFactory == null ? null : dataPipeFactory.newInstance();
+                ((PushTransformer)transformer).transform(result, dataPipe.getSink(), context);
+                result = dataPipe.getResult();
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    private TransformationContext createTransformationContext(DataType sourceDataType,
+                                                              DataType targetDataType,
+                                                              int size,
+                                                              int index,
+                                                              Transformer transformer,
+                                                              Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        DataType sourceType =
+            (index == 0) ? sourceDataType : new DataTypeImpl<Object>(transformer.getSourceDataBinding(), Object.class,
+                                                                     sourceDataType.getLogical());
+        DataType targetType =
+            (index == size - 1) ? targetDataType : new DataTypeImpl<Object>(transformer.getTargetDataBinding(),
+                                                                            Object.class, targetDataType.getLogical());
+
+        //FIXME The ClassLoader should be passed in
+        // Allow privileged access to get ClassLoader. Requires RuntimePermission in security
+        // policy.
+        ClassLoader classLoader = AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction<ClassLoader>() {
+            public ClassLoader run() {
+                return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+            }
+        });
+
+        Map<String, Object> copy = new HashMap<String, Object>();
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            copy.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+        copy.put(ExtensionPointRegistry.class.getName(), registry);
+
+        TransformationContext context = new TransformationContextImpl(sourceType, targetType, classLoader, copy);
+        return context;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public void mediate(Object source,
+                        Object target,
+                        DataType sourceDataType,
+                        DataType targetDataType,
+                        Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        if (source == null) {
+            // Shortcut for null value
+            return;
+        }
+        if (sourceDataType == null || sourceDataType.getDataBinding() == null) {
+            Operation operation = (Operation)metadata.get(SOURCE_OPERATION);
+            sourceDataType = dataBindings.introspectType(source, operation);
+        }
+        if (sourceDataType == null) {
+            return;
+        } else if (sourceDataType.equals(targetDataType)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        List<Transformer> path = getTransformerChain(sourceDataType, targetDataType);
+        Object result = source;
+        int size = path.size();
+        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+            Transformer transformer = path.get(i);
+            TransformationContext context =
+                createTransformationContext(sourceDataType, targetDataType, size, i, transformer, metadata);
+
+            if (transformer instanceof PullTransformer) {
+                result = ((PullTransformer)transformer).transform(result, context);
+            } else if (transformer instanceof PushTransformer) {
+                DataPipeTransformer dataPipeFactory = (i < size - 1) ? (DataPipeTransformer)path.get(++i) : null;
+                DataPipe dataPipe = dataPipeFactory == null ? null : dataPipeFactory.newInstance();
+                Object sink = dataPipe != null ? dataPipe.getSink() : target;
+                ((PushTransformer)transformer).transform(result, sink, context);
+                result = (dataPipe != null) ? dataPipe.getResult() : null;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private List<Transformer> getTransformerChain(DataType sourceDataType, DataType targetDataType) {
+        String sourceId = sourceDataType.getDataBinding();
+        String targetId = targetDataType.getDataBinding();
+        List<Transformer> path = transformers.getTransformerChain(sourceId, targetId);
+        if (path == null) {
+            TransformationException ex =
+                new TransformationException("No path found for the transformation: " + sourceId + "->" + targetId);
+            ex.setSourceDataBinding(sourceId);
+            ex.setTargetDataBinding(targetId);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+        return path;
+    }
+
+    public DataBindingExtensionPoint getDataBindings() {
+        return dataBindings;
+    }
+
+    public TransformerExtensionPoint getTransformers() {
+        return transformers;
+    }
+
+    private DataType getFaultType(DataType exceptionType) {
+        return exceptionType == null ? null : (DataType)exceptionType.getLogical();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param qn1
+     * @param qn2
+     */
+    private boolean matches(QName qn1, QName qn2) {
+        if (qn1 == qn2) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (qn1 == null || qn2 == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        String ns1 = qn1.getNamespaceURI();
+        String ns2 = qn2.getNamespaceURI();
+        String e1 = qn1.getLocalPart();
+        String e2 = qn2.getLocalPart();
+        if (e1.equals(e2) && (ns1.equals(ns2) || ns1.equals(ns2 + "/") || ns2.equals(ns1 + "/"))) {
+            // Tolerating the trailing / which is required by JAX-WS java package --> xml ns mapping
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param source The source exception
+     * @param sourceExType The data type for the source exception
+     * @param targetExType The data type for the target exception
+     * @param sourceType The fault type for the source
+     * @param targetType The fault type for the target
+     * @return
+     */
+    private Object transformException(Object source,
+                                      DataType sourceExType,
+                                      DataType targetExType,
+                                      DataType sourceType,
+                                      DataType targetType,
+                                      Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+
+        if (sourceType == targetType || (sourceType != null && sourceType.equals(targetType))) {
+            return source;
+        }
+
+        DataType<DataType> eSourceDataType =
+            new DataTypeImpl<DataType>(IDL_FAULT, sourceExType.getPhysical(), sourceType);
+        DataType<DataType> eTargetDataType =
+            new DataTypeImpl<DataType>(IDL_FAULT, targetExType.getPhysical(), targetType);
+
+        return mediate(source, eSourceDataType, eTargetDataType, metadata);
+    }
+
+    //
+    // Assumes we're going from target->source, knowing that we're throwing BACK an exception, rather than the more
+    // obvious source->target
+    //
+    public Object mediateFault(Object result,
+                               Operation sourceOperation,
+                               Operation targetOperation,
+                               Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+
+        // FIXME: How to match fault data to a fault type for the
+        // operation?
+
+        // If the result is from an InvocationTargetException look at
+        // the actual cause.
+        if (result instanceof InvocationTargetException) {
+            result = ((InvocationTargetException)result).getCause();
+        }
+        DataType targetDataType = null;
+        for (DataType exType : targetOperation.getFaultTypes()) {
+            if (((Class)exType.getPhysical()).isInstance(result)) {
+                if (result instanceof FaultException) {
+                    DataType faultType = (DataType)exType.getLogical();
+                    if (((FaultException)result).isMatchingType(faultType.getLogical())) {
+                        targetDataType = exType;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    targetDataType = exType;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        /*
+        if (targetDataType == null) {
+            // Not a business exception
+            return resultMsg;
+        }
+        */
+
+        DataType targetFaultType = getFaultType(targetDataType);
+        if (targetFaultType == null) {
+            // No matching fault type, it's a system exception
+            Throwable cause = (Throwable)result;
+            throw new ServiceRuntimeException(cause);
+        }
+
+        // FIXME: How to match a source fault type to a target fault
+        // type?
+        DataType sourceDataType = null;
+        DataType sourceFaultType = null;
+        for (DataType exType : sourceOperation.getFaultTypes()) {
+            DataType faultType = getFaultType(exType);
+            // Match by the QName (XSD element) of the fault type
+            if (faultType != null && typesMatch(targetFaultType.getLogical(), faultType.getLogical())) {
+                sourceDataType = exType;
+                sourceFaultType = faultType;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (sourceFaultType == null) {
+            // No matching fault type, it's a system exception
+            Throwable cause = (Throwable)result;
+            throw new ServiceRuntimeException(cause);
+        }
+
+        Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<String, Object>();
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            context.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+        if (targetOperation != null) {
+            context.put(SOURCE_OPERATION, targetOperation);
+        }
+        if (sourceOperation != null) {
+            context.put(TARGET_OPERATION, sourceOperation);
+        }
+
+        Object newResult =
+            transformException(result, targetDataType, sourceDataType, targetFaultType, sourceFaultType, context);
+
+        return newResult;
+
+    }
+
+    private boolean typesMatch(Object first, Object second) {
+        if (first.equals(second)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (first instanceof XMLType && second instanceof XMLType) {
+            XMLType t1 = (XMLType)first;
+            XMLType t2 = (XMLType)second;
+            // TUSCANY-2113, we should compare element names only
+            return matches(t1.getElementName(), t2.getElementName());
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Assumes we're going from target-to-source, knowing that we're sending BACK an output response, rather than the more
+     * obvious source-to-target.
+     *
+     * @param output
+     * @param sourceOperation
+     * @param targetOperation
+     * @return
+     */
+    public Object mediateOutput(Object output,
+                                Operation sourceOperation,
+                                Operation targetOperation,
+                                Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        // Create a data type to represent the ouput produced by the target operation
+        DataType<DataType> targetType =
+            new DataTypeImpl<DataType>(IDL_OUTPUT, Object.class, targetOperation.getOutputType());
+
+        // Create a data type to represent the ouput expected by the source operation
+        DataType<DataType> sourceType =
+            new DataTypeImpl<DataType>(IDL_OUTPUT, Object.class, sourceOperation.getOutputType());
+
+        if (sourceType == targetType || (sourceType != null && sourceType.equals(targetType))) {
+            return output;
+        }
+        Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<String, Object>();
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            context.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+        if (targetOperation != null) {
+            context.put(SOURCE_OPERATION, targetOperation);
+        }
+        if (sourceOperation != null) {
+            context.put(TARGET_OPERATION, sourceOperation);
+        }
+        return mediate(output, targetType, sourceType, context);
+    }
+
+    public Object mediateInput(Object input,
+                               Operation sourceOperation,
+                               Operation targetOperation,
+                               Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        // Get the data type to represent the input passed in by the source operation
+        DataType sourceType = sourceOperation.getInputType();
+
+        // Get the data type to represent the input expected by the target operation
+        DataType targetType = targetOperation.getInputType();
+
+        if (sourceType == targetType || (sourceType != null && sourceType.equals(targetType))) {
+            return input;
+        }
+        Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<String, Object>();
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            context.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+        if (sourceOperation != null) {
+            context.put(SOURCE_OPERATION, sourceOperation);
+        }
+        if (targetOperation != null) {
+            context.put(TARGET_OPERATION, targetOperation);
+        }
+        return mediate(input, sourceType, targetType, context);
+    }
+
+    public TransformationContext createTransformationContext() {
+        return new TransformationContextImpl();
+    }
+
+    public TransformationContext createTransformationContext(DataType sourceDataType,
+                                                             DataType targetDataType,
+                                                             Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        return new TransformationContextImpl(sourceDataType, targetDataType, metadata);
+    }
+
+    public Object copy(Object data, DataType dataType) {
+        return copy(data, dataType, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Copy data using the specified databinding.
+     * @param data input data
+     * @param dataType
+     * @return a copy of the data
+     */
+    private Object copy(Object data, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        if (data == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        Class<?> clazz = data.getClass();
+        if (String.class == clazz || clazz.isPrimitive()
+            || Number.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Boolean.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Character.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Byte.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || URI.class == clazz
+            || UUID.class == clazz
+            || QName.class == clazz) {
+            // Immutable classes
+            return data;
+        }
+
+        DataBinding javaBeansDataBinding = dataBindings.getDataBinding(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME);
+        // FIXME: The JAXB databinding is hard-coded here
+        DataBinding jaxbDataBinding = dataBindings.getDataBinding("javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement");
+        DataBinding dataBinding = dataBindings.getDataBinding(dataType.getDataBinding());
+        // If no databinding was specified, introspect the given arg to
+        // determine its databinding
+        if (dataBinding == null) {
+            if (!"java:array".equals(dataType.getDataBinding())) {
+                dataType = dataBindings.introspectType(data, operation);
+                if (dataType != null) {
+                    String db = dataType.getDataBinding();
+                    dataBinding = dataBindings.getDataBinding(db);
+                    if (dataBinding == null && db != null) {
+                        return data;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (dataBinding == null) {
+
+                // Default to the JavaBean databinding
+                dataBinding = dataBindings.getDataBinding(JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Use the JAXB databinding to copy non-Serializable data
+        if (dataBinding == javaBeansDataBinding) {
+
+            // If the input data is an array containing non Serializable elements
+            // use JAXB
+            clazz = data.getClass();
+            if (clazz.isArray()) {
+                if (Array.getLength(data) != 0) {
+                    Object element = Array.get(data, 0);
+                    if (element != null && !(element instanceof Serializable)) {
+                        dataBinding = jaxbDataBinding;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+
+                // If the input data is not Serializable use JAXB
+                if (!((data instanceof Serializable) || (data instanceof Cloneable))) {
+                    dataBinding = jaxbDataBinding;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (dataBinding != null) {
+            return dataBinding.copy(data, dataType, operation);
+        } else {
+            return data;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Copy an array of data objects passed to an operation
+     * @param data array of objects to copy
+     * @return the copy
+     */
+    public Object copyInput(Object input, Operation operation) {
+        if (input == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        Object[] data = (input instanceof Object[]) ? (Object[])input : new Object[] {input};
+        List<DataType> inputTypes = operation.getInputType().getLogical();
+        Object[] copy = new Object[data.length];
+        Map<Object, Object> map = new IdentityHashMap<Object, Object>();
+        for (int i = 0, size = inputTypes.size(); i < size; i++) {
+            Object arg = data[i];
+            if (arg == null) {
+                copy[i] = null;
+            } else {
+                Object copiedArg = map.get(arg);
+                if (copiedArg != null) {
+                    copy[i] = copiedArg;
+                } else {
+                    copiedArg = copy(arg, inputTypes.get(i));
+                    map.put(arg, copiedArg);
+                    copy[i] = copiedArg;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return copy;
+    }
+
+    public Object copyOutput(Object data, Operation operation) {
+        return copy(data, operation.getOutputType(), operation);
+    }
+
+    public Object copyFault(Object fault, Operation operation) {
+        if (faultExceptionMapper == null) {
+            return fault;
+        }
+        for (DataType et : operation.getFaultTypes()) {
+            if (et.getPhysical().isInstance(fault)) {
+                Throwable ex = (Throwable)fault;
+                DataType<DataType> exType =
+                    new DataTypeImpl<DataType>(ex.getClass(), new DataTypeImpl<XMLType>(ex.getClass(), XMLType.UNKNOWN));
+                faultExceptionMapper.introspectFaultDataType(exType, operation, false);
+                DataType faultType = exType.getLogical();
+                Object faultInfo = faultExceptionMapper.getFaultInfo(ex, faultType.getPhysical(), operation);
+                faultInfo = copy(faultInfo, faultType);
+                fault =
+                    faultExceptionMapper.wrapFaultInfo(exType, ex.getMessage(), faultInfo, ex.getCause(), operation);
+                return fault;
+            }
+        }
+        return fault;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/PipedTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/PipedTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a1a89005b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/PipedTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+
+/**
+ * A utility class to connect PushTransformer and DataPipe to create a
+ * PullTransformer
+ * 
+ * @param <S> Source type
+ * @param <I> Intermediate type
+ * @param <R> Result type
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class PipedTransformer<S, I, R> implements PullTransformer<S, R> {
+    private PushTransformer<S, I> pusher;
+
+    private DataPipeTransformer<I, R> pipe;
+
+    /**
+     * @param pumper
+     * @param pipe
+     */
+    public PipedTransformer(PushTransformer<S, I> pumper, DataPipeTransformer<I, R> pipe) {
+        super();
+        this.pusher = pumper;
+        this.pipe = pipe;
+    }
+
+    public R transform(S source, TransformationContext context) {
+        DataPipe<I, R> dataPipe = pipe.newInstance();
+        pusher.transform(source, dataPipe.getSink(), context);
+        return dataPipe.getResult();
+    }
+
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return pusher.getSourceDataBinding();
+    }
+
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return pipe.getTargetDataBinding();
+    }
+
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return pusher.getWeight() + pipe.getWeight();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/SimpleType2JavaTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/SimpleType2JavaTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c91176fc2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/SimpleType2JavaTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.SimpleTypeMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans.SimpleJavaDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a databinding's representation of simple
+ * types to Java Objects
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class SimpleType2JavaTransformer<T> extends BaseTransformer<T, Object> implements
+    PullTransformer<T, Object> {
+
+    protected SimpleTypeMapper mapper;
+
+    public SimpleType2JavaTransformer() {
+        this.mapper = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+
+    public SimpleType2JavaTransformer(SimpleTypeMapper mapper) {
+        this.mapper = (mapper != null) ? mapper : new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+
+    public Object transform(T source, TransformationContext context) {
+        XMLType xmlType = (XMLType)context.getSourceDataType().getLogical();
+        QName type = (xmlType != null) ? xmlType.getTypeName() : null;
+        if (type == null) {
+            xmlType = (XMLType)context.getTargetDataType().getLogical();
+            type = (xmlType != null) ? xmlType.getTypeName() : null;
+        }
+        Object result = mapper.toJavaObject(type, getText(source), context);
+        close(source);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Object> getTargetType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        // Cannot be used for intermediate
+        return 10000;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the string value from the source
+     * @param source
+     * @return A string
+     */
+    protected abstract String getText(T source);
+    
+    /**
+     * To be overrided by the subclass
+     * @param source
+     */
+    protected void close(T source) {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return SimpleJavaDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/SimpleTypeMapperImpl.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/SimpleTypeMapperImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ffa950f1a
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;
+import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar;
+import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.SimpleTypeMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+
+/**
+ * Simple type mapper that maps from XSD types to Java Classes and Java Classes to XSD types.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class SimpleTypeMapperImpl extends XSDDataTypeConverter implements SimpleTypeMapper {
+
+    public static final Map<Class, String> JAVA2XML = new HashMap<Class, String>();
+
+    public static final String URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
+
+    public static final Map<String, Class> XML2JAVA = new HashMap<String, Class>();
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ANY = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "any");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ANYSIMPLETYPE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "anySimpleType");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ANYTYPE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "anyType");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ANYURI = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "anyURI");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_BASE64 = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "base64Binary");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_BOOLEAN = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "boolean");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_BYTE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "byte");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DATE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "date");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DATETIME = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "dateTime");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DAY = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "gDay");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DECIMAL = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "decimal");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DOUBLE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "double");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_DURATION = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "duration");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ENTITIES = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "ENTITIES");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_ENTITY = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "ENTITY");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_FLOAT = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "float");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_HEXBIN = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "hexBinary");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_IDREF = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "IDREF");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_IDREFS = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "IDREFS");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_INT = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "int");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_INTEGER = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "integer");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_LONG = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "long");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_MONTH = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "gMonth");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_MONTHDAY = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "gMonthDay");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NAME = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "Name");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NCNAME = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "NCName");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NEGATIVEINTEGER = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "negativeInteger");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NMTOKEN = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "NMTOKEN");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NMTOKENS = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "NMTOKENS");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NONNEGATIVEINTEGER = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "nonNegativeInteger");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NONPOSITIVEINTEGER = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "nonPositiveInteger");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NORMALIZEDSTRING = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "normalizedString");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_NOTATION = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "NOTATION");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_POSITIVEINTEGER = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "positiveInteger");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_QNAME = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "QName");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_SHORT = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "short");
+
+    public static final Map<String, TypeInfo> XSD_SIMPLE_TYPES = new HashMap<String, TypeInfo>();
+
+    public static final QName XSD_STRING = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "string");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_TIME = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "time");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_TOKEN = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "token");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_UNSIGNEDBYTE = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "unsignedByte");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_UNSIGNEDINT = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "unsignedInt");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_UNSIGNEDLONG = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "unsignedLong");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_UNSIGNEDSHORT = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "unsignedShort");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_YEAR = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "gYear");
+
+    public static final QName XSD_YEARMONTH = new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "gYearMonth");
+
+    private static final String[] XSD_TYPE_NAMES =
+    {"string", "boolean", "double", "float", "int", "integer", "long", "short", "byte", "decimal", "base64Binary",
+     "hexBinary", "anySimpleType", "anyType", "any", "QName", "dateTime", "date", "time", "normalizedString",
+     "token", "unsignedLong", "unsignedInt", "unsignedShort", "unsignedByte", "positiveInteger", "negativeInteger",
+     "nonNegativeInteger", "nonPositiveInteger", "gYearMonth", "gMonthDay", "gYear", "gMonth", "gDay", "duration",
+     "Name", "NCName", "NMTOKEN", "NMTOKENS", "NOTATION", "ENTITY", "ENTITIES", "IDREF", "IDREFS", "anyURI",
+     "language", "ID"};
+
+    static {
+        for (String type : XSD_TYPE_NAMES) {
+            TypeInfo simpleType = new TypeInfo(new QName(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, type), true, null);
+            XSD_SIMPLE_TYPES.put(type, simpleType);
+        }
+    }
+
+    static {
+        JAVA2XML.put(boolean.class, "boolean");
+        JAVA2XML.put(byte.class, "byte");
+        JAVA2XML.put(short.class, "short");
+        JAVA2XML.put(int.class, "int");
+        JAVA2XML.put(long.class, "long");
+        JAVA2XML.put(float.class, "float");
+        JAVA2XML.put(double.class, "double");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Boolean.class, "boolean");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Byte.class, "byte");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Short.class, "short");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Integer.class, "int");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Long.class, "long");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Float.class, "float");
+        JAVA2XML.put(Double.class, "double");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.lang.String.class, "string");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.math.BigInteger.class, "integer");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.math.BigDecimal.class, "decimal");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.util.Calendar.class, "dateTime");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.util.Date.class, "dateTime");
+        JAVA2XML.put(javax.xml.namespace.QName.class, "QName");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.net.URI.class, "string");
+        JAVA2XML.put(javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class, "anySimpleType");
+        JAVA2XML.put(javax.xml.datatype.Duration.class, "duration");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.lang.Object.class, "anyType");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.awt.Image.class, "base64Binary");
+        JAVA2XML.put(byte[].class, "base64Binary");
+        // java2XSD.put(javax.activation.DataHandler.class, "base64Binary");
+        JAVA2XML.put(javax.xml.transform.Source.class, "base64Binary");
+        JAVA2XML.put(java.util.UUID.class, "string");
+    }
+
+    static {
+        XML2JAVA.put("string", java.lang.String.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("integer", java.math.BigInteger.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("int", int.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("long", long.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("short", short.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("decimal", java.math.BigDecimal.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("float", float.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("double", double.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("boolean", boolean.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("byte", byte.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("QName", javax.xml.namespace.QName.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("dateTime", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("base64Binary", byte[].class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("hexBinary", byte[].class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("unsignedInt", long.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("unsignedShort", int.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("unsignedByte", short.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("time", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("date", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("gDay", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("gMonth", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("gYear", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("gYearMonth", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("gMonthDay", javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("anySimpleType", java.lang.Object.class); // For elements
+        // XML2JAVA.put("anySimpleType", java.lang.String.class); // For
+        // attributes
+        XML2JAVA.put("duration", javax.xml.datatype.Duration.class);
+        XML2JAVA.put("NOTATION", javax.xml.namespace.QName.class);
+    }
+
+    private DatatypeFactory factory;
+
+    public SimpleTypeMapperImpl() {
+        super();
+        try {
+            this.factory = DatatypeFactory.newInstance();
+        } catch (DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Class<?> getJavaType(QName xmlType) {
+         if (xmlType != null && URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD.equals(xmlType.getNamespaceURI())) {
+            return XML2JAVA.get(xmlType.getLocalPart());
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public TypeInfo getXMLType(Class javaType) {
+        return XSD_SIMPLE_TYPES.get(JAVA2XML.get(javaType));
+    }
+
+    public Object toJavaObject(QName simpleType, String literal, TransformationContext context) {
+        /**
+         * <ul>
+         * <li>xsd:string --- java.lang.String
+         * <li>xsd:integer --- java.math.BigInteger
+         * <li>xsd:int --- int
+         * <li>xsd:long --- long
+         * <li>xsd:short --- short
+         * <li>xsd:decimal --- java.math.BigDecimal
+         * <li>xsd:float --- float
+         * <li>xsd:double --- double
+         * <li>xsd:boolean --- boolean
+         * <li>xsd:byte --- byte
+         * <li>xsd:QName --- javax.xml.namespace.QName
+         * <li>xsd:dateTime --- javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
+         * <li>xsd:base64Binary --- byte[]
+         * <li>xsd:hexBinary --- byte[]
+         * <li>xsd:unsignedInt --- long
+         * <li>xsd:unsignedShort --- int
+         * <li>xsd:unsignedByte --- short
+         * <li>xsd:time --- javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
+         * <li>xsd:date --- javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
+         * <li>xsd:g* --- javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar
+         * <li>xsd:anySimpleType (for xsd:element of this type)a
+         * java.lang.Object
+         * <li>xsd:anySimpleType (for xsd:attribute of this type)
+         * java.lang.String
+         * <li>xsd:duration javax.xml.datatype.Duration
+         * <li>xsd:NOTATION javax.xml.namespace.QName
+         * </ul>
+         */
+
+        if (literal == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        String value = literal.trim();
+
+        QName type = simpleType;
+        if (type.equals(XSD_STRING)) {
+            return parseString(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_INT)) {
+            return parseInt(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_INTEGER)) {
+            return parseInteger(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_INT)) {
+            return parseInt(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_FLOAT)) {
+            return parseFloat(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DOUBLE)) {
+            return parseDouble(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_SHORT)) {
+            return parseShort(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DECIMAL)) {
+            return parseDecimal(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_BOOLEAN)) {
+            return parseBoolean(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_BYTE)) {
+            return parseByte(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_LONG)) {
+            return parseLong(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_UNSIGNEDBYTE)) {
+            return parseUnsignedShort(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_UNSIGNEDSHORT)) {
+            return parseUnsignedShort(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_UNSIGNEDINT)) {
+            return parseUnsignedInt(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_UNSIGNEDLONG)) {
+            return parseUnsignedInt(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DATETIME)) {
+            return parseDateTime(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DATE)) {
+            return parseDate(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_TIME)) {
+            return parseTime(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DURATION)) {
+            return parseDuration(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_HEXBIN)) {
+            return parseHexBinary(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_BASE64)) {
+            return parseBase64Binary(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_QNAME)) {
+            NamespaceContext namespaceContext =
+                (NamespaceContext)((context != null) ? context.getMetadata().get(NamespaceContext.class.getName()) : null);
+            return parseQName(value, namespaceContext);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_NOTATION)) {
+            NamespaceContext namespaceContext =
+                (NamespaceContext)((context != null) ? context.getMetadata().get(NamespaceContext.class.getName()) : null);
+            return parseQName(value, namespaceContext);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_YEAR)) {
+            return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_MONTH)) {
+            return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_DAY)) {
+            return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_YEARMONTH)) {
+            return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(value);
+        } else if (type.equals(XSD_MONTHDAY)) {
+            return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(value);
+        } else {
+            return value;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    private XMLGregorianCalendar toXMLGregorianCalendar(Date date) {
+        GregorianCalendar c =
+            new GregorianCalendar(date.getYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate(), date.getHours(), date.getMinutes(),
+                                  date.getSeconds());
+        return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);
+    }
+
+    private XMLGregorianCalendar toXMLGregorianCalendar(GregorianCalendar calendar) {
+        return factory.newXMLGregorianCalendar(calendar);
+    }
+
+    public String toXMLLiteral(QName simpleType, Object obj, TransformationContext context) {
+        if(obj == null) {
+            // It could be null if nilable=true
+            return null;
+        }
+        if (obj instanceof Float || obj instanceof Double) {
+            if (obj instanceof Float) {
+                return printDouble(((Float)obj).floatValue());
+            } else {
+                return printDouble(((Double)obj).doubleValue());
+            }
+        } else if (obj instanceof GregorianCalendar) {
+            GregorianCalendar calendar = (GregorianCalendar)obj;
+            return toXMLGregorianCalendar(calendar).toXMLFormat();
+        } else if (obj instanceof Date) {
+            return toXMLGregorianCalendar((Date)obj).toXMLFormat();
+        } else if (obj instanceof XMLGregorianCalendar) {
+            return ((XMLGregorianCalendar)obj).toXMLFormat();
+        } else if (obj instanceof byte[]) {
+            if (simpleType != null) {
+                if (simpleType.equals(XSD_BASE64)) {
+                    return printBase64Binary((byte[])obj);
+                } else if (simpleType.equals(XSD_HEXBIN)) {
+                    return printHexBinary((byte[])obj);
+                }
+            }
+        } else if (obj instanceof QName) {
+            NamespaceContext namespaceContext =
+                (NamespaceContext)((context != null) ? context.getMetadata().get(NamespaceContext.class.getName()) : null);
+            return printQName((QName)obj, namespaceContext);
+        }
+        return obj.toString();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isSimpleXSDType(QName typeName) {
+        if (typeName == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return typeName.getNamespaceURI().equals(URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD) 
+            && XSD_SIMPLE_TYPES.get(typeName.getLocalPart()) != null;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/TransformationContextImpl.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/TransformationContextImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a5b8e0a0bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/TransformationContextImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+public class TransformationContextImpl implements TransformationContext {
+    private static final String SOURCE_OPERATION = "source.operation";
+
+    private static final String TARGET_OPERATION = "target.operation";
+
+    private DataType sourceDataType;
+
+    private DataType targetDataType;
+
+    private final Map<String, Object> metadata = new HashMap<String, Object>();
+
+    private WeakReference<ClassLoader> classLoaderRef;
+
+    public TransformationContextImpl() {
+        super();
+        // This is used only for testing
+        setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+    }
+
+    public TransformationContextImpl(DataType sourceDataType,
+                                     DataType targetDataType,
+                                     ClassLoader classLoader,
+                                     Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        super();
+        this.sourceDataType = sourceDataType;
+        this.targetDataType = targetDataType;
+        setClassLoader(classLoader);
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            this.metadata.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public TransformationContextImpl(DataType sourceDataType,
+                                     DataType targetDataType,
+                                     Map<String, Object> metadata) {
+        super();
+        this.sourceDataType = sourceDataType;
+        this.targetDataType = targetDataType;
+        setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+        if (metadata != null) {
+            this.metadata.putAll(metadata);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public DataType getSourceDataType() {
+        return sourceDataType;
+    }
+
+    public DataType getTargetDataType() {
+        return targetDataType;
+    }
+
+    public void setSourceDataType(DataType sourceDataType) {
+        this.sourceDataType = sourceDataType;
+    }
+
+    public void setTargetDataType(DataType targetDataType) {
+        this.targetDataType = targetDataType;
+    }
+
+    public final void setClassLoader(ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        this.classLoaderRef = new WeakReference<ClassLoader>(classLoader);
+    }
+
+    public ClassLoader getClassLoader() {
+        return classLoaderRef.get();
+    }
+
+    public Map<String, Object> getMetadata() {
+        return metadata;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the sourceOperation
+     */
+    public Operation getSourceOperation() {
+        return (Operation) metadata.get(SOURCE_OPERATION);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param sourceOperation the sourceOperation to set
+     */
+    public void setSourceOperation(Operation sourceOperation) {
+        this.metadata.put(SOURCE_OPERATION, sourceOperation);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the targetOperation
+     */
+    public Operation getTargetOperation() {
+        return (Operation) metadata.get(TARGET_OPERATION);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param targetOperation the targetOperation to set
+     */
+    public void setTargetOperation(Operation targetOperation) {
+        this.metadata.put(TARGET_OPERATION, targetOperation);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/XSDDataTypeConverter.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/XSDDataTypeConverter.java
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index 0000000000..fb747864e7
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+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/impl/XSDDataTypeConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,945 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
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+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.math.BigInteger;
+import java.text.FieldPosition;
+import java.text.Format;
+import java.text.ParsePosition;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;
+import javax.xml.datatype.Duration;
+import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+/**
+ * Utility class for XSD data type conversions
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XSDDataTypeConverter {
+    public static final class Base64Binary {
+        private static final char[] S_BASE64CHAR =
+        {'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S',
+            'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
+            'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4',
+            '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '+', '/'};
+
+        private static final char S_BASE64PAD = '=';
+
+        private static final byte[] S_DECODETABLE = new byte[128];
+
+        static {
+            for (int i = 0; i < S_DECODETABLE.length; i++) {
+                S_DECODETABLE[i] = Byte.MAX_VALUE; // 127
+            }
+            for (int i = 0; i < S_BASE64CHAR.length; i++) {
+                // 0 to 63
+                S_DECODETABLE[S_BASE64CHAR[i]] = (byte) i;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private Base64Binary() {
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * 
+         */
+        public static byte[] decode(char[] data, int off, int len) {
+            char[] ibuf = new char[4];
+            int ibufcount = 0;
+            byte[] obuf = new byte[len / 4 * 3 + 3];
+            int obufcount = 0;
+            for (int i = off; i < off + len; i++) {
+                char ch = data[i];
+                if (ch == S_BASE64PAD || ch < S_DECODETABLE.length && S_DECODETABLE[ch] != Byte.MAX_VALUE) {
+                    ibuf[ibufcount++] = ch;
+                    if (ibufcount == ibuf.length) {
+                        ibufcount = 0;
+                        obufcount += decode0(ibuf, obuf, obufcount);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (obufcount == obuf.length) {
+                return obuf;
+            }
+            byte[] ret = new byte[obufcount];
+            System.arraycopy(obuf, 0, ret, 0, obufcount);
+            return ret;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * 
+         */
+        public static void decode(char[] data, int off, int len, OutputStream ostream) throws IOException {
+            char[] ibuf = new char[4];
+            int ibufcount = 0;
+            byte[] obuf = new byte[3];
+            for (int i = off; i < off + len; i++) {
+                char ch = data[i];
+                if (ch == S_BASE64PAD || ch < S_DECODETABLE.length && S_DECODETABLE[ch] != Byte.MAX_VALUE) {
+                    ibuf[ibufcount++] = ch;
+                    if (ibufcount == ibuf.length) {
+                        ibufcount = 0;
+                        int obufcount = decode0(ibuf, obuf, 0);
+                        ostream.write(obuf, 0, obufcount);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * 
+         */
+        public static byte[] decode(String data) {
+            char[] ibuf = new char[4];
+            int ibufcount = 0;
+            byte[] obuf = new byte[data.length() / 4 * 3 + 3];
+            int obufcount = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < data.length(); i++) {
+                char ch = data.charAt(i);
+                if (ch == S_BASE64PAD || ch < S_DECODETABLE.length && S_DECODETABLE[ch] != Byte.MAX_VALUE) {
+                    ibuf[ibufcount++] = ch;
+                    if (ibufcount == ibuf.length) {
+                        ibufcount = 0;
+                        obufcount += decode0(ibuf, obuf, obufcount);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (obufcount == obuf.length) {
+                return obuf;
+            }
+            byte[] ret = new byte[obufcount];
+            System.arraycopy(obuf, 0, ret, 0, obufcount);
+            return ret;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * 
+         */
+        public static void decode(String data, OutputStream ostream) throws IOException {
+            char[] ibuf = new char[4];
+            int ibufcount = 0;
+            byte[] obuf = new byte[3];
+            for (int i = 0; i < data.length(); i++) {
+                char ch = data.charAt(i);
+                if (ch == S_BASE64PAD || ch < S_DECODETABLE.length && S_DECODETABLE[ch] != Byte.MAX_VALUE) {
+                    ibuf[ibufcount++] = ch;
+                    if (ibufcount == ibuf.length) {
+                        ibufcount = 0;
+                        int obufcount = decode0(ibuf, obuf, 0);
+                        ostream.write(obuf, 0, obufcount);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static int decode0(char[] ibuf, byte[] obuf, int index) {
+            int wp = index;
+            int outlen = 3;
+            if (ibuf[3] == S_BASE64PAD) {
+                outlen = 2;
+            }
+            if (ibuf[2] == S_BASE64PAD) {
+                outlen = 1;
+            }
+            int b0 = S_DECODETABLE[ibuf[0]];
+            int b1 = S_DECODETABLE[ibuf[1]];
+            int b2 = S_DECODETABLE[ibuf[2]];
+            int b3 = S_DECODETABLE[ibuf[3]];
+            switch (outlen) {
+                case 1:
+                    obuf[wp] = (byte) (b0 << 2 & 0xfc | b1 >> 4 & 0x3);
+                    return 1;
+                case 2:
+                    obuf[wp++] = (byte) (b0 << 2 & 0xfc | b1 >> 4 & 0x3);
+                    obuf[wp] = (byte) (b1 << 4 & 0xf0 | b2 >> 2 & 0xf);
+                    return 2;
+                case 3:
+                    obuf[wp++] = (byte) (b0 << 2 & 0xfc | b1 >> 4 & 0x3);
+                    obuf[wp++] = (byte) (b1 << 4 & 0xf0 | b2 >> 2 & 0xf);
+                    obuf[wp] = (byte) (b2 << 6 & 0xc0 | b3 & 0x3f);
+                    return 3;
+                default:
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("The character sequence is not base64 encoded.");
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Returns base64 representation of specified byte array.
+         */
+        public static String encode(byte[] data) {
+            return encode(data, 0, data.length);
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Returns base64 representation of specified byte array.
+         */
+        public static String encode(byte[] data, int off, int len) {
+            if (len <= 0) {
+                return "";
+            }
+            char[] out = new char[len / 3 * 4 + 4];
+            int rindex = off;
+            int windex = 0;
+            int rest = len - off;
+            while (rest >= 3) {
+                int i =
+                    ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 16) + ((data[rindex + 1] & 0xff) << 8)
+                        + (data[rindex + 2] & 0xff);
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 18];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 12) & 0x3f];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 6) & 0x3f];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[i & 0x3f];
+                rindex += 3;
+                rest -= 3;
+            }
+            if (rest == 1) {
+                int i = data[rindex] & 0xff;
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 2];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64PAD;
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64PAD;
+            } else if (rest == 2) {
+                int i = ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 8) + (data[rindex + 1] & 0xff);
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 10];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 2) & 0x3f];
+                out[windex++] = S_BASE64PAD;
+            }
+            return new String(out, 0, windex);
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Outputs base64 representation of the specified byte array to a byte stream.
+         */
+        public static void encode(byte[] data, int off, int len, OutputStream ostream) throws IOException {
+            if (len <= 0) {
+                return;
+            }
+            byte[] out = new byte[4];
+            int rindex = off;
+            int rest = len - off;
+            while (rest >= 3) {
+                int i =
+                    ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 16) + ((data[rindex + 1] & 0xff) << 8)
+                        + (data[rindex + 2] & 0xff);
+                out[0] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 18];
+                out[1] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 12) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 6) & 0x3f];
+                out[3] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[i & 0x3f];
+                ostream.write(out, 0, 4);
+                rindex += 3;
+                rest -= 3;
+            }
+            if (rest == 1) {
+                int i = data[rindex] & 0xff;
+                out[0] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 2];
+                out[1] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = (byte) S_BASE64PAD;
+                out[3] = (byte) S_BASE64PAD;
+                ostream.write(out, 0, 4);
+            } else if (rest == 2) {
+                int i = ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 8) + (data[rindex + 1] & 0xff);
+                out[0] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 10];
+                out[1] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = (byte) S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 2) & 0x3f];
+                out[3] = (byte) S_BASE64PAD;
+                ostream.write(out, 0, 4);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Outputs base64 representation of the specified byte array to a character stream.
+         */
+        public static void encode(byte[] data, int off, int len, Writer writer) throws IOException {
+            if (len <= 0) {
+                return;
+            }
+            char[] out = new char[4];
+            int rindex = off;
+            int rest = len - off;
+            int output = 0;
+            while (rest >= 3) {
+                int i =
+                    ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 16) + ((data[rindex + 1] & 0xff) << 8)
+                        + (data[rindex + 2] & 0xff);
+                out[0] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 18];
+                out[1] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 12) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 6) & 0x3f];
+                out[3] = S_BASE64CHAR[i & 0x3f];
+                writer.write(out, 0, 4);
+                rindex += 3;
+                rest -= 3;
+                output += 4;
+                if (output % 76 == 0) {
+                    writer.write("\n");
+                }
+            }
+            if (rest == 1) {
+                int i = data[rindex] & 0xff;
+                out[0] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 2];
+                out[1] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = S_BASE64PAD;
+                out[3] = S_BASE64PAD;
+                writer.write(out, 0, 4);
+            } else if (rest == 2) {
+                int i = ((data[rindex] & 0xff) << 8) + (data[rindex + 1] & 0xff);
+                out[0] = S_BASE64CHAR[i >> 10];
+                out[1] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i >> 4) & 0x3f];
+                out[2] = S_BASE64CHAR[(i << 2) & 0x3f];
+                out[3] = S_BASE64PAD;
+                writer.write(out, 0, 4);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p/>
+     * Utility class for xs:hexbinary. </p>
+     */
+    public static final class HexBinary {
+        private HexBinary() {
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Converts the string <code>pValue</code> into an array of hex bytes.
+         */
+        public static byte[] decode(String pValue) {
+            if ((pValue.length() % 2) != 0) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("A HexBinary string must have even length.");
+            }
+            byte[] result = new byte[pValue.length() / 2];
+            int j = 0;
+            int i = 0;
+            while (i < pValue.length()) {
+                byte b;
+                char c = pValue.charAt(i++);
+                char d = pValue.charAt(i++);
+                if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
+                    b = (byte) ((c - '0') << 4);
+                } else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') {
+                    b = (byte) ((c - 'A' + 10) << 4);
+                } else if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') {
+                    b = (byte) ((c - 'a' + 10) << 4);
+                } else {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid hex digit: " + c);
+                }
+                if (d >= '0' && d <= '9') {
+                    b += (byte) (d - '0');
+                } else if (d >= 'A' && d <= 'F') {
+                    b += (byte) (d - 'A' + 10);
+                } else if (d >= 'a' && d <= 'f') {
+                    b += (byte) (d - 'a' + 10);
+                } else {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid hex digit: " + d);
+                }
+                result[j++] = b;
+            }
+            return result;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Converts the byte array <code>pHexBinary</code> into a string.
+         */
+        public static String encode(byte[] pHexBinary) {
+            StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
+            for (int i = 0; i < pHexBinary.length; i++) {
+                byte b = pHexBinary[i];
+                byte c = (byte) ((b & 0xf0) >> 4);
+                if (c <= 9) {
+                    result.append((char) ('0' + c));
+                } else {
+                    result.append((char) ('A' + c - 10));
+                }
+                c = (byte) (b & 0x0f);
+                if (c <= 9) {
+                    result.append((char) ('0' + c));
+                } else {
+                    result.append((char) ('A' + c - 10));
+                }
+            }
+            return result.toString();
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Creates a clone of the given byte array.
+         */
+        public static byte[] getClone(byte[] pHexBinary) {
+            byte[] result = new byte[pHexBinary.length];
+            System.arraycopy(pHexBinary, 0, result, 0, pHexBinary.length);
+            return result;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public class XSDDateFormat extends XSDDateTimeFormat {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = -1629412916827246627L;
+
+        /**
+         * Creates a new instance.
+         */
+        public XSDDateFormat() {
+            super(true, false);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p/>
+     * An instance of {@link java.text.Format}, which may be used to parse and format <code>xs:dateTime</code> values.
+     * </p>
+     */
+    public static class XSDDateTimeFormat extends Format {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = -1148332471737068969L;
+
+        final boolean parseDate;
+
+        final boolean parseTime;
+
+        /**
+         * Creates a new instance.
+         */
+        public XSDDateTimeFormat() {
+            this(true, true);
+        }
+
+        XSDDateTimeFormat(boolean pParseDate, boolean pParseTime) {
+            parseDate = pParseDate;
+            parseTime = pParseTime;
+        }
+
+        private void append(StringBuffer pBuffer, int pNum, int pMinLen) {
+            String s = Integer.toString(pNum);
+            for (int i = s.length(); i < pMinLen; i++) {
+                pBuffer.append('0');
+            }
+            pBuffer.append(s);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public StringBuffer format(Object pCalendar, StringBuffer pBuffer, FieldPosition pPos) {
+            assert pCalendar != null : "The Calendar argument must not be null.";
+            assert pBuffer != null : "The StringBuffer argument must not be null.";
+            assert pPos != null : "The FieldPosition argument must not be null.";
+
+            Calendar cal = (Calendar) pCalendar;
+            if (parseDate) {
+                int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
+                if (year < 0) {
+                    pBuffer.append('-');
+                    year = -year;
+                }
+                append(pBuffer, year, 4);
+                pBuffer.append('-');
+                append(pBuffer, cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1, 2);
+                pBuffer.append('-');
+                append(pBuffer, cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), 2);
+                if (parseTime) {
+                    pBuffer.append('T');
+                }
+            }
+            if (parseTime) {
+                append(pBuffer, cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY), 2);
+                pBuffer.append(':');
+                append(pBuffer, cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE), 2);
+                pBuffer.append(':');
+                append(pBuffer, cal.get(Calendar.SECOND), 2);
+                int millis = cal.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
+                if (millis > 0) {
+                    pBuffer.append('.');
+                    append(pBuffer, millis, 3);
+                }
+            }
+            TimeZone tz = cal.getTimeZone();
+            // JDK 1.4: int offset = tz.getOffset(cal.getTimeInMillis());
+            int offset = cal.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET);
+            if (tz.inDaylightTime(cal.getTime())) {
+                offset += cal.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);
+            }
+            if (offset == 0) {
+                pBuffer.append('Z');
+            } else {
+                if (offset < 0) {
+                    pBuffer.append('-');
+                    offset = -offset;
+                } else {
+                    pBuffer.append('+');
+                }
+                int minutes = offset / (60 * 1000);
+                int hours = minutes / 60;
+                minutes -= hours * 60;
+                append(pBuffer, hours, 2);
+                pBuffer.append(':');
+                append(pBuffer, minutes, 2);
+            }
+            return pBuffer;
+        }
+
+        private int parseInt(String pString, int offset, StringBuffer pDigits) {
+            int length = pString.length();
+            int pOffset = offset;
+            pDigits.setLength(0);
+            while (pOffset < length) {
+                char c = pString.charAt(pOffset);
+                if (Character.isDigit(c)) {
+                    pDigits.append(c);
+                    ++pOffset;
+                } else {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            return pOffset;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Object parseObject(String pString, ParsePosition pParsePosition) {
+            assert pString != null : "The String argument must not be null.";
+            assert pParsePosition != null : "The ParsePosition argument must not be null.";
+            int offset = pParsePosition.getIndex();
+            int length = pString.length();
+
+            boolean isMinus = false;
+            StringBuffer digits = new StringBuffer();
+            int year = 0;
+            int month = 0;
+            int mday = 0;
+            if (parseDate) {
+                // Sign
+                if (offset < length) {
+                    char c = pString.charAt(offset);
+                    if (c == '+') {
+                        ++offset;
+                    } else if (c == '-') {
+                        ++offset;
+                        isMinus = true;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() < 4) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                year = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == '-') {
+                    ++offset;
+                } else {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() != 2) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                month = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == '-') {
+                    ++offset;
+                } else {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() != 2) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                mday = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (parseTime) {
+                    if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == 'T') {
+                        ++offset;
+                    } else {
+                        pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                        return null;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                year = month = mday = 0;
+            }
+
+            int hour = 0;
+            int minute = 0;
+            int second = 0;
+            int millis = 0;
+            if (parseTime) {
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() != 2) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                hour = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == ':') {
+                    ++offset;
+                } else {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() != 2) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                minute = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == ':') {
+                    ++offset;
+                } else {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+
+                offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                if (digits.length() != 2) {
+                    pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                    return null;
+                }
+                second = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+
+                if (offset < length && pString.charAt(offset) == '.') {
+                    ++offset;
+                    offset = parseInt(pString, offset, digits);
+                    if (digits.length() > 0) {
+                        millis = Integer.parseInt(digits.toString());
+                    } else {
+                        millis = 0;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    millis = 0;
+                }
+            } else {
+                hour = minute = second = millis = 0;
+            }
+
+            digits.setLength(0);
+            digits.append("GMT");
+            if (offset < length) {
+                char c = pString.charAt(offset);
+                if (c == 'Z') {
+                    // Ignore UTC, it is the default
+                    ++offset;
+                } else if (c == '+' || c == '-') {
+                    digits.append(c);
+                    ++offset;
+                    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+                        if (offset >= length) {
+                            pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                            return null;
+                        }
+                        c = pString.charAt(offset);
+                        if ((i != 2 && Character.isDigit(c)) || (i == 2 && c == ':')) {
+                            digits.append(c);
+                        } else {
+                            pParsePosition.setErrorIndex(offset);
+                            return null;
+                        }
+                        ++offset;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone(digits.toString()));
+            cal.set(isMinus ? -year : year, parseDate ? month - 1 : month, mday, hour, minute, second);
+            cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, millis);
+            pParsePosition.setIndex(offset);
+            return cal;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static class XSDTimeFormat extends XSDDateTimeFormat {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1346506860724640517L;
+
+        /**
+         * Creates a new instance.
+         */
+        public XSDTimeFormat() {
+            super(false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final long MAX_UNSIGNED_INT = (((long) Integer.MAX_VALUE) * 2) + 1;
+
+    private static final int MAX_UNSIGNED_SHORT = Short.MAX_VALUE * 2 + 1;
+
+    public String parseAnySimpleType(String value) {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    public byte[] parseBase64Binary(String value) {
+        return Base64Binary.decode(value);
+    }
+
+    public boolean parseBoolean(String value) {
+        return Boolean.valueOf(value).booleanValue();
+    }
+
+    public byte parseByte(String value) {
+        return Byte.parseByte(value);
+    }
+
+    public Calendar parseDate(String value) {
+        XSDDateFormat format = new XSDDateFormat();
+        ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
+        Calendar cal = (Calendar) format.parseObject(value, pos);
+        if (cal == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse date " + value + " at:"
+                + value.substring(pos.getErrorIndex()));
+        }
+        return cal;
+    }
+
+    public Calendar parseDateTime(String value) {
+        XSDDateTimeFormat format = new XSDDateTimeFormat();
+        ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
+        Calendar cal = (Calendar) format.parseObject(value, pos);
+        if (cal == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse dateTime " + value + " at:"
+                + value.substring(pos.getErrorIndex()));
+        }
+        return cal;
+    }
+
+    public BigDecimal parseDecimal(String value) {
+        return new BigDecimal(value);
+    }
+
+    public double parseDouble(String value) {
+        if ("INF".equals(value)) {
+            return Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+        } else if ("-INF".equals(value)) {
+            return Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+        } else if ("NaN".equals(value)) {
+            return Double.NaN;
+        } else {
+            return Double.parseDouble(value);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Duration parseDuration(String pDuration) {
+        try {
+            return DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newDuration(pDuration);
+        } catch (DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public float parseFloat(String value) {
+        if ("INF".equals(value)) {
+            return Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+        } else if ("-INF".equals(value)) {
+            return Float.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+        } else if ("NaN".equals(value)) {
+            return Float.NaN;
+        } else {
+            return Float.parseFloat(value);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public byte[] parseHexBinary(String value) {
+        return HexBinary.decode(value);
+    }
+
+    public int parseInt(String value) {
+        return Integer.parseInt(value);
+    }
+
+    public BigInteger parseInteger(String value) {
+        return new BigInteger(value);
+    }
+
+    public long parseLong(String value) {
+        return Long.parseLong(value);
+    }
+
+    public QName parseQName(String value, NamespaceContext context) {
+        int offset = value.indexOf(':');
+        String uri;
+        String localName;
+        switch (offset) {
+            case -1:
+                localName = value;
+                uri = context.getNamespaceURI("");
+                if (uri == null) {
+                    // Should not happen, indicates an error in the
+                    // NamespaceContext
+                    // implementation
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("The default prefix is not bound.");
+                }
+                break;
+            case 0:
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Default prefix must be indicated by not using a colon: "
+                    + value);
+            default:
+                String prefix = value.substring(0, offset);
+                localName = value.substring(offset + 1);
+                uri = context.getNamespaceURI(prefix);
+                if (uri == null) {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("The prefix " + prefix + " is not bound.");
+                }
+        }
+        return new QName(uri, localName);
+    }
+
+    public short parseShort(String value) {
+        return Short.parseShort(value);
+    }
+
+    public String parseString(String value) {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    public Calendar parseTime(String value) {
+        XSDTimeFormat format = new XSDTimeFormat();
+        ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
+        Calendar cal = (Calendar) format.parseObject(value, pos);
+        if (cal == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse time " + value + " at:"
+                + value.substring(pos.getErrorIndex()));
+        }
+        return cal;
+    }
+
+    public long parseUnsignedInt(String value) {
+        long l = Long.parseLong(value);
+        if (l < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse UnsignedInt " + value
+                + ": result is negative");
+        }
+        if (l > MAX_UNSIGNED_INT) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse UnsignedInt " + value
+                + ": result exceeds maximum value " + MAX_UNSIGNED_INT);
+        }
+        return l;
+    }
+
+    public int parseUnsignedShort(String value) {
+        int i = Integer.parseInt(value);
+        if (i < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse UnsignedShort " + value
+                + ": result is negative");
+        }
+        if (i > MAX_UNSIGNED_SHORT) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse UnsignedShort " + value
+                + ": result exceeds maximum value " + MAX_UNSIGNED_SHORT);
+        }
+        return i;
+    }
+
+    public String printAnySimpleType(String value) {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    public String printBase64Binary(byte[] value) {
+        return Base64Binary.encode(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printBoolean(boolean value) {
+        return (value ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE).toString();
+    }
+
+    public String printByte(byte value) {
+        return Byte.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printDate(Calendar value) {
+        return new XSDDateFormat().format(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printDateTime(Calendar value) {
+        return new XSDDateTimeFormat().format(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printDecimal(BigDecimal value) {
+        return value.toString();
+    }
+
+    public String printDouble(double value) {
+        return Double.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printDuration(Duration pDuration) {
+        return pDuration.toString();
+    }
+
+    public String printFloat(float value) {
+        return Float.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printHexBinary(byte[] value) {
+        return HexBinary.encode(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printInt(int value) {
+        return Integer.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printInteger(BigInteger value) {
+        return value.toString();
+    }
+
+    public String printLong(long value) {
+        return Long.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printQName(QName value, NamespaceContext context) {
+        String prefix = context.getPrefix(value.getNamespaceURI());
+        if (prefix == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The namespace URI " + value.getNamespaceURI()
+                + " is not bound.");
+        } else if (XMLConstants.DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX.equals(prefix)) {
+            return value.getLocalPart();
+        } else {
+            return prefix + ":" + value.getLocalPart();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String printShort(short value) {
+        return Short.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printString(String value) {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    public String printTime(Calendar value) {
+        return new XSDTimeFormat().format(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printUnsignedInt(long value) {
+        return Long.toString(value);
+    }
+
+    public String printUnsignedShort(int value) {
+        return Integer.toString(value);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/DOMNode2JavaBeanTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/DOMNode2JavaBeanTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fbca9b0444
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/DOMNode2JavaBeanTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from DOM Node to JavaBean
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class DOMNode2JavaBeanTransformer extends XML2JavaBeanTransformer<Node> {
+
+    @Override
+    public Node getRootElement(Node element) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        if (element instanceof Document) {
+            return ((Document)element).getDocumentElement();
+        } else {
+            return element;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Iterator<Node> getChildElements(Node parent) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        NodeList nodeList = parent.getChildNodes();
+        List<Node> nodeArrayList = new ArrayList<Node>(nodeList.getLength());
+        for (int count = 0; count < nodeList.getLength(); ++count) {
+            nodeArrayList.add(nodeList.item(count));
+        }
+
+        return nodeArrayList.iterator();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getElementName(Node element) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        return element.getLocalName();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getText(Node element) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        if (element instanceof Document) {
+            element = ((Document)element).getDocumentElement();
+        }
+        return element.getTextContent();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isTextElement(Node element) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        return element.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isTextOnly(Node element) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        NodeList childNodes = element.getChildNodes();
+        return childNodes.getLength() == 1 && isTextElement(childNodes.item(0));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Node getFirstChildWithName(Node element, QName name) throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        Node child;
+        for (child = element.getFirstChild();
+             child != null && !(child.getNodeName() == name.getLocalPart()
+                                && child.getNamespaceURI() == name.getNamespaceURI()) ;
+             child = child.getNextSibling()) {
+        }
+        return child;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/Java2XMLMapperException.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/Java2XMLMapperException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5dc13bd60b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/Java2XMLMapperException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is used to encapsulate and rethrow exceptions that arise out
+ * of converting JavaBean objects to XML
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Java2XMLMapperException extends RuntimeException {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6811924384399578686L;
+
+    private QName xmlElementName;
+    private String javaFieldName;
+    private Class javaType;
+    
+    public Java2XMLMapperException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    public Java2XMLMapperException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    public String getJavaFieldName() {
+        return javaFieldName;
+    }
+
+    public void setJavaFieldName(String javaFieldName) {
+        this.javaFieldName = javaFieldName;
+    }
+
+    public Class getJavaType() {
+        return javaType;
+    }
+
+    public void setJavaType(Class javaType) {
+        this.javaType = javaType;
+    }
+
+    public QName getXmlElementName() {
+        return xmlElementName;
+    }
+
+    public void setXmlElementName(QName xmlElementName) {
+        this.xmlElementName = xmlElementName;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2DOMNodeTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2DOMNodeTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f582499b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2DOMNodeTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a JavaBean object to DOM Node
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class JavaBean2DOMNodeTransformer extends JavaBean2XMLTransformer<Node> {
+
+    public static final String COLON = ":";
+    private DOMHelper helper;
+    
+    public JavaBean2DOMNodeTransformer(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        helper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public void appendChild(Node parentElement, Node childElement) throws Java2XMLMapperException {
+        parentElement.appendChild(childElement);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Node createElement(QName qName) throws Java2XMLMapperException {
+        String qualifedName =
+            (qName.getPrefix() == null || qName.getPrefix().length() <= 0) ? qName.getLocalPart()
+                : qName.getPrefix() + COLON + qName.getLocalPart();
+        return helper.newDocument().createElementNS(qName.getNamespaceURI(), qualifedName);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void appendText(Node parentElement, String textData) throws Java2XMLMapperException {
+        Document document = helper.newDocument();
+        Node textNode;
+        if (textData != null) {
+            textNode = document.createTextNode(textData);
+        } else {
+            Attr nil = document.createAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "xsi:nil");
+            nil.setValue("true");
+            textNode = nil;
+        }
+        appendChild(parentElement, textNode);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLStreamReaderTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLStreamReaderTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4942fef0da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLStreamReaderTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml.BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a JavaBean object to XMLStreamReader.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class JavaBean2XMLStreamReaderTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Object, XMLStreamReader> implements
+    PullTransformer<Object, XMLStreamReader> {
+
+    public XMLStreamReader transform(Object source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            javax.xml.namespace.QName name = null;
+            if (context != null) {
+                Object logical = context.getSourceDataType().getLogical();
+                if (logical instanceof XMLType) {
+                    name = ((XMLType)logical).getElementName();
+                }
+            }
+            return new BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl(name, source);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Object> getSourceType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getTargetType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b94b944a98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBean2XMLTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+
+import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar;
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.SimpleTypeMapperImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a JavaBean object to xml
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class JavaBean2XMLTransformer<T> extends BaseTransformer<Object, T> implements
+    PullTransformer<Object, T> {
+
+    public static final String GET = "get";
+    public static final String PREFIX = "n";
+    public static final String PERIOD = ".";
+    public static final String FWD_SLASH = "/";
+    public static final String HTTP = "http://";
+    private static int prefixCount = 1;
+
+    protected SimpleTypeMapperImpl mapper;
+
+    public JavaBean2XMLTransformer() {
+        this.mapper = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+
+    public T transform(Object source, TransformationContext context) {
+        QName rootElement = null;
+        if (context != null) {
+            DataType<?> type = context.getTargetDataType();
+            if (type != null) {
+                Object logical = type.getLogical();
+                if (logical instanceof XMLType) {
+                    rootElement = ((XMLType)logical).getElementName();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        //FIXME See how/if we still need to get the metadata here
+        //QName rootElementName = (QName)context.getTargetDataType().getMetadata("RootElementName");
+        //if (rootElementName == null) {
+        QName rootElementName = new QName(resolveRootElementName(source.getClass()));
+        //}
+
+        T root = createElement(rootElementName);
+        appendChildElements(root, resolveElementName(source.getClass()), source.getClass(), source, context);
+        return root;
+    }
+
+    private void appendChildElements(T parent,
+                                     QName elementName,
+                                     Class javaType,
+                                     Object javaObject,
+                                     TransformationContext context) {
+        T element = null;
+        if (javaObject != null) {
+            if (javaType.isPrimitive() || isSimpleJavaType(javaObject)) {
+                appendText(parent, mapper.toXMLLiteral(null, javaObject, context));
+            } else if (javaType.isArray()) {
+                int size = Array.getLength(javaObject);
+                for (int count = 0; count < size; ++count) {
+                    Object item = Array.get(javaObject, count);
+                    element = createElement(elementName);
+                    appendChild(parent, element);
+                    appendChildElements(element, elementName, javaType.getComponentType(), item, context);
+                }
+            } else {
+                Field[] javaFields = javaType.getFields();
+                for (Field aField : javaFields) {
+                    try {
+                        QName fieldElementName = new QName(aField.getName());
+                        if (!aField.getType().isArray()) {
+                            element = createElement(fieldElementName);
+                            appendChild(parent, element);
+                            appendChildElements(element,
+                                                fieldElementName,
+                                                aField.getType(),
+                                                aField.get(javaObject),
+                                                context);
+                        } else {
+                            appendChildElements(parent,
+                                                fieldElementName,
+                                                aField.getType(),
+                                                aField.get(javaObject),
+                                                context);
+                        }
+                    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+                        Java2XMLMapperException java2xmlEx = new Java2XMLMapperException(e);
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaFieldName(aField.getName());
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaType(javaType);
+                        throw java2xmlEx;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                Method[] methods = javaType.getMethods();
+                String fieldName = null;
+                for (Method aMethod : methods) {
+                    try {
+                        if (Modifier.isPublic(aMethod.getModifiers()) && aMethod.getName().startsWith(GET)
+                            && aMethod.getParameterTypes().length == 0
+                            && isMappedGetter(aMethod.getName())) {
+                            fieldName = resolveFieldFromMethod(aMethod.getName());
+                            try {
+                                javaType.getField(fieldName);
+                            } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
+                                QName fieldElementName = new QName(fieldName);
+                                if (aMethod.getReturnType().isArray()) {
+                                    appendChildElements(parent, fieldElementName, aMethod.getReturnType(), aMethod
+                                        .invoke(javaObject, new Object[0]), context);
+                                } else {
+                                    element = createElement(fieldElementName);
+                                    appendChild(parent, element);
+                                    appendChildElements(element, fieldElementName, aMethod.getReturnType(), aMethod
+                                        .invoke(javaObject, new Object[0]), context);
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+                        Java2XMLMapperException java2xmlEx = new Java2XMLMapperException(e);
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaFieldName(fieldName);
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaType(javaType);
+                        throw java2xmlEx;
+                    } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+                        Java2XMLMapperException java2xmlEx = new Java2XMLMapperException(e);
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaFieldName(fieldName);
+                        java2xmlEx.setJavaType(javaType);
+                        throw java2xmlEx;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Subclasses can override this method to prevent some getter methods
+     * from being mapped.  The default implementation provided by this class
+     * maps all getter methods.
+     */
+    protected boolean isMappedGetter(String methodName) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getSourceDataBinding() {
+        return JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Object> getSourceType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    private boolean isSimpleJavaType(Object javaObject) {
+        if (javaObject instanceof String) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (javaObject instanceof Byte || javaObject instanceof Character
+            || javaObject instanceof Short
+            || javaObject instanceof Integer
+            || javaObject instanceof Long
+            || javaObject instanceof Float
+            || javaObject instanceof Double
+            || javaObject instanceof Boolean) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (javaObject instanceof GregorianCalendar || javaObject instanceof Date
+            || javaObject instanceof XMLGregorianCalendar
+            || javaObject instanceof byte[]
+            || javaObject instanceof QName) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private String resolveRootElementName(Class javaType) {
+        if (javaType.isArray()) {
+            return javaType.getComponentType().getSimpleName() + "_collection";
+        } else {
+            return javaType.getSimpleName() + "_instance";
+        }
+    }
+
+    private QName resolveElementName(Class javaType) {
+        if (javaType.isArray()) {
+            return new QName(javaType.getComponentType().getSimpleName());
+        } else {
+            return new QName(javaType.getSimpleName());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String resolveFieldFromMethod(String methodName) {
+        StringBuffer fieldName = new StringBuffer();
+        fieldName.append(Character.toLowerCase(methodName.charAt(GET.length())));
+        fieldName.append(methodName.substring(GET.length() + 1));
+        return fieldName.toString();
+    }
+
+    public String getNexPrefix() {
+        return PREFIX + prefixCount++;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return JavaBeansDataBinding.HEAVY_WEIGHT;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create an element with the given name
+     * @param qName
+     * @return
+     * @throws Java2XMLMapperException
+     */
+    public abstract T createElement(QName qName) throws Java2XMLMapperException;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a text node and add it to the parent
+     * @param parentElement
+     * @param textData
+     * @throws Java2XMLMapperException
+     */
+    public abstract void appendText(T parentElement, String textData) throws Java2XMLMapperException;
+
+    /**
+     * Add the child element to the parent
+     * @param parentElement
+     * @param childElement
+     * @throws Java2XMLMapperException
+     */
+    public abstract void appendChild(T parentElement, T childElement) throws Java2XMLMapperException;
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBeansDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBeansDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4981699792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaBeansDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectStreamClass;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+
+/**
+ * DataBinding for JavaBeans
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class JavaBeansDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(JavaBeansDataBinding.class.getName());
+    /**
+     * Defining a weight to a very high number so that the transformer won't be picked
+     * up by other paths unless it's the only available path
+     */
+    public static final int HEAVY_WEIGHT = 10000;
+    public static final String NAME = "java:complexType";
+
+    public JavaBeansDataBinding() {
+        super(NAME, Object.class);
+    }
+
+    protected JavaBeansDataBinding(String name, Class<?> baseType) {
+        super(name, baseType);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object copy(Object arg, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        if (arg == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        final Class<?> clazz = arg.getClass();
+        if (String.class == clazz || clazz.isPrimitive()
+            || Number.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Boolean.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Character.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+            || Byte.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
+            // Immutable classes
+            return arg;
+        }
+        try {
+            if (arg instanceof Serializable) {
+                ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                ObjectOutputStream oos = getObjectOutputStream(bos);
+                oos.writeObject(arg);
+                oos.close();
+                bos.close();
+
+                // Work out which ClassLoader to use for deserializing arg
+                // We want to use:
+                //   * The ClassLoader of arg if it is not the System ClassLoader
+                //   * The ThreadContext ClassLoader if the ClassLoader of arg is the System ClassLoader
+                //     because Collection classes are loaded by the System ClassLoader but their contents
+                //     may be loaded from another ClassLoader
+                //
+                ClassLoader classLoaderToUse = clazz.getClassLoader();
+                if (classLoaderToUse == null)
+                {
+                    // ClassLoader of arg is the System ClassLoader so we will use the ThreadContext ClassLoader
+                    // instead
+                    classLoaderToUse = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+                }
+
+                ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray());
+                ObjectInputStream ois = getObjectInputStream(bis, classLoaderToUse);
+                Object objectCopy = ois.readObject();
+                ois.close();
+                bis.close();
+                return objectCopy;
+            } else if (arg instanceof Cloneable) {
+                Method clone;
+                try {
+                    clone = arg.getClass().getMethod("clone");
+                    try {
+                        return clone.invoke(arg, (Object[])null);
+                    } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+                        if (e.getTargetException() instanceof CloneNotSupportedException) {
+                            // Ignore
+                        } else {
+                            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+                        }
+                    } catch (Exception e) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+                    }
+                } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+                    // Ignore it
+                }
+            }
+                // return arg;
+            logger.warning("Argument type '" + arg.getClass().getName()
+                + "' is not Serializable or Cloneable. Pass-by-value is skipped.");
+            return arg;
+       } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pass-by-value is not supported for the given object: " + arg.getClass()
+                .getName(), e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected ObjectOutputStream getObjectOutputStream(OutputStream os) throws IOException {
+        return new ObjectOutputStream(os);
+    }
+
+    protected ObjectInputStream getObjectInputStream(InputStream is, final ClassLoader cl) throws IOException {
+        ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(is) {
+            @Override
+            protected Class<?> resolveClass(ObjectStreamClass desc) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+                try {
+                    return Class.forName(desc.getName(), false, cl);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    try {
+                        // For OSGi, use context ClassLoader if the bundle ClassLoader cannot load the class
+                        if (cl != Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()) {
+                            return Class.forName(desc.getName(), false, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+                        }
+                    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
+                        // ignore
+                    } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e1) {
+                        // ignore
+                    }
+                    return super.resolveClass(desc);
+                }
+            }
+
+        };
+        return ois;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaExceptionDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaExceptionDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6886462ac8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/JavaExceptionDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+
+/**
+ * DataBinding for Java Exceptions
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class JavaExceptionDataBinding extends JavaBeansDataBinding {
+
+    public static final String NAME = "java:exception";
+
+    public JavaExceptionDataBinding() {
+        super(NAME, null);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/SimpleJavaDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/SimpleJavaDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8b97d4425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/SimpleJavaDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.SimpleTypeMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.SimpleTypeMapperImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml.XMLStringDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * DataBinding for Java simple types
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class SimpleJavaDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    public static final String NAME = "java:simpleType";
+    private SimpleTypeMapper simpleTypeMapper = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+
+    public SimpleJavaDataBinding(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super(NAME, Object.class);
+//        UtilityExtensionPoint utilityExtensionPoint = registry.getExtensionPoint(UtilityExtensionPoint.class);
+//        this.simpleTypeMapper = utilityExtensionPoint.getUtility(SimpleTypeMapper.class);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object copy(Object arg, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        if (arg instanceof byte[]) {
+            return ((byte[])arg).clone();
+        }
+        return arg;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        Class<?> cls = type.getPhysical();
+        if (cls == Object.class) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // HACK: [rfeng] By pass the one know to XMLString
+        String db = type.getDataBinding();
+        if (db != null && (XMLStringDataBinding.NAME.equals(db))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (SimpleTypeMapperImpl.JAVA2XML.keySet().contains(cls)) {
+            type.setDataBinding(NAME);
+            QName elementName = null;
+            Object logical = type.getLogical();
+            if (logical instanceof XMLType) {
+                elementName = ((XMLType)logical).getElementName();
+            }
+            TypeInfo typeInfo = simpleTypeMapper.getXMLType(cls);
+            type.setLogical(new XMLType(elementName, typeInfo == null ? null : typeInfo.getQName()));
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaBeanTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaBeanTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6a30605f0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaBeanTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,329 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.SimpleTypeMapperImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from XML to JavaBean
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class XML2JavaBeanTransformer<T> extends BaseTransformer<T, Object> implements
+        PullTransformer<T, Object> {
+
+    public static final String SET = "set";
+    public static final QName QNAME_MESSAGE = new QName("message");
+
+    protected SimpleTypeMapperImpl mapper;
+
+    public XML2JavaBeanTransformer() {
+        this.mapper = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return JavaBeansDataBinding.HEAVY_WEIGHT;
+    }
+    
+    public Object transform(T source, TransformationContext context) {
+        //FIXME why is the logical type sometimes a Class instead of an XMLType?
+        if (context.getSourceDataType().getLogical() instanceof XMLType) {
+            XMLType xmlType = (XMLType) context.getSourceDataType().getLogical();
+            return toJavaObject(xmlType.getTypeName(), getRootElement(source), context);
+        } else {
+            return toJavaObject(null, getRootElement(source), context);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Object toJavaObject(QName xmlType, T xmlElement, TransformationContext context) {
+        if (xmlType != null && mapper.isSimpleXSDType(xmlType)) {
+            return mapper.toJavaObject(xmlType, getText(xmlElement), context);
+        } else {
+            Class<?> javaType = (Class<?>)context.getTargetDataType().getPhysical();
+            return createJavaObject(xmlElement, javaType, context);
+        }
+    }
+    
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    private <L> L createJavaObject(T element, Class<L> javaType, TransformationContext context) 
+        throws XML2JavaMapperException {
+        if (isTextOnly(element)) {
+            return (L) mapper.toJavaObject(mapper.getXMLType(javaType).getQName(),
+                                                 getText(element),
+                                                 context);
+        } else {
+            String fieldName = null;
+            try {
+                L javaInstance;
+                T detailMsg = null;
+                if (Throwable.class.isAssignableFrom(javaType)) {
+                    T msgElement = getFirstChildWithName(element, QNAME_MESSAGE);
+                    if (msgElement != null && isTextOnly(msgElement)) {
+                        detailMsg = msgElement;  // skip this when handling child elements
+                        Constructor constructor = javaType.getConstructor(new Class[] {String.class});
+                        javaInstance = (L)constructor.newInstance(new Object[] {getText(detailMsg)});
+                    } else {
+                        javaInstance = javaType.newInstance();
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    javaInstance = javaType.newInstance();
+                }
+                Map<Field, List<Object>> arrayFields = new Hashtable<Field, List<Object>>();
+                Map<Method, List<Object>> arraySetters = new Hashtable<Method, List<Object>>();
+                
+                for (Iterator<T> childElements = getChildElements(element); childElements.hasNext(); ) {
+                    T childElement = childElements.next();
+                    if (!isTextElement(childElement) && childElement != detailMsg) {
+                        fieldName = getElementName(childElement);
+                        try {
+                            Field javaField = javaType.getField(fieldName);
+                            setFieldValue(javaInstance,
+                                          javaField,
+                                          childElement,
+                                          arrayFields,
+                                          context);
+
+                        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e1) {
+                            setFieldValueUsingSetter(javaType,
+                                                     javaInstance,
+                                                     fieldName,
+                                                     childElement,
+                                                     arraySetters,
+                                                     context);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                setArrayValues(javaInstance, arrayFields, arraySetters);
+                return javaInstance;
+            } catch (Exception e2) {
+                XML2JavaMapperException xml2JavaEx = new XML2JavaMapperException(e2);
+                xml2JavaEx.setJavaType(javaType);
+                xml2JavaEx.setJavaFieldName(fieldName);
+                throw xml2JavaEx;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void setFieldValue(Object javaInstance,
+                               Field javaField,
+                               T fieldValue,
+                               Map<Field, List<Object>> arrayFields,
+                               TransformationContext context) throws IllegalAccessException {
+        Class<?> javaFieldType = (Class<?>) javaField.getType();
+
+        if (javaFieldType.isArray()) {
+            Class<?> componentType = javaFieldType.getComponentType();
+            List<Object> fldValueArray = arrayFields.get(javaField);
+            if (fldValueArray == null) {
+                fldValueArray = new ArrayList<Object>();
+                arrayFields.put(javaField, fldValueArray);
+            }
+            fldValueArray.add(createJavaObject(fieldValue, componentType, context));
+        } else {
+            javaField.setAccessible(true);
+            javaField.set(javaInstance, createJavaObject(fieldValue, javaFieldType, context));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void setFieldValueUsingSetter(Class javaType,
+                                          Object javaInstance,
+                                          String fieldName,
+                                          T fieldValue,
+                                          Map<Method, List<Object>> arraySetters,
+                                          TransformationContext context) throws IllegalAccessException,
+                                                                        InvocationTargetException {
+        char firstChar = Character.toUpperCase(fieldName.charAt(0));
+        StringBuilder methodName = new StringBuilder(SET + fieldName);
+        methodName.setCharAt(SET.length(), firstChar);
+        boolean methodNotFound = true;
+
+        for (int methodCount = 0; methodNotFound && methodCount < javaType.getMethods().length; ++methodCount) {
+            Method aMethod = javaType.getMethods()[methodCount];
+            if (aMethod.getName().equals(methodName.toString())
+                    && aMethod.getParameterTypes().length == 1) {
+                Class<?> paramType = aMethod.getParameterTypes()[0];
+
+                if (paramType.isArray()) {
+                    Class<?> componentType = paramType.getComponentType();
+                    List<Object> setterValueArray = arraySetters.get(aMethod);
+                    if (setterValueArray == null) {
+                        setterValueArray = new ArrayList<Object>();
+                        arraySetters.put(aMethod, setterValueArray);
+                    }
+                    setterValueArray.add(createJavaObject(fieldValue, componentType, context));
+                } else {
+                    aMethod.invoke(javaInstance, new Object[] {createJavaObject(fieldValue,
+                                                                                 paramType,
+                                                                                 context)});
+                }
+                methodNotFound = false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (methodNotFound) {
+            XML2JavaMapperException xml2JavaEx =
+                    new XML2JavaMapperException("No field or setter method to configure xml data");
+            xml2JavaEx.setJavaFieldName(fieldName);
+            xml2JavaEx.setJavaType(javaType);
+            throw xml2JavaEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void setArrayValues(Object javaInstance,
+                                Map<Field, List<Object>> arrayFields,
+                                Map<Method, List<Object>> arraySetters) throws IllegalAccessException,
+                                                                       InvocationTargetException {
+        if (arrayFields.size() > 0) {
+            for (Field javaField : arrayFields.keySet()) {
+                javaField.setAccessible(true);
+
+                if (javaField.getType().getComponentType().isPrimitive()) {
+                    javaField.set(javaInstance, createPrimitiveArray(javaField.getType()
+                                                                              .getComponentType(),
+                                                                     arrayFields.get(javaField)));
+                } else {
+                    javaField.set(javaInstance,
+                                  createNonPrimitiveArray(javaField.getType().getComponentType(),
+                                                          arrayFields.get(javaField)));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (arraySetters.size() > 0) {
+            for (Method aMethod : arraySetters.keySet()) {
+                Class<?> paramType = aMethod.getParameterTypes()[0];
+                if (paramType.getComponentType().isPrimitive()) {
+                    aMethod.invoke(javaInstance,
+                                   new Object[] {createPrimitiveArray(paramType.getComponentType(),
+                                                                       arraySetters.get(aMethod))});
+                } else {
+                    aMethod.invoke(javaInstance,
+                                   new Object[] {createNonPrimitiveArray(paramType.getComponentType(),
+                                                                          arraySetters.get(aMethod))});
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Object createNonPrimitiveArray(Class fieldType, List values) {
+        Object objectArray = Array.newInstance(fieldType, values.size());
+        for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+            Array.set(objectArray, count, values.get(count));
+        }
+        return objectArray;
+    }
+
+    private Object createPrimitiveArray(Class fieldType, List values) {
+        if (fieldType.isPrimitive()) {
+            if (fieldType.getName().equals("int")) {
+                int[] primitiveValues = new int[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Integer) values.get(count)).intValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("float")) {
+                float[] primitiveValues = new float[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Float) values.get(count)).floatValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("boolean")) {
+                boolean[] primitiveValues = new boolean[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Boolean) values.get(count)).booleanValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("char")) {
+                char[] primitiveValues = new char[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Character) values.get(count)).charValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("byte")) {
+                byte[] primitiveValues = new byte[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Byte) values.get(count)).byteValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("short")) {
+                short[] primitiveValues = new short[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Short) values.get(count)).shortValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("long")) {
+                long[] primitiveValues = new long[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Long) values.get(count)).longValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            } else if (fieldType.getName().equals("double")) {
+                double[] primitiveValues = new double[values.size()];
+                for (int count = 0; count < values.size(); ++count) {
+                    primitiveValues[count] = ((Double) values.get(count)).doubleValue();
+                }
+                return primitiveValues;
+            }
+        }
+        return values;
+    }
+
+    public abstract String getText(T source) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    public abstract Iterator<T> getChildElements(T parent) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    public abstract String getElementName(T element) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    public abstract boolean isTextElement(T element) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+    
+    public abstract boolean isTextOnly(T element) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    public abstract T getFirstChildWithName(T element, QName name) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    public abstract T getRootElement(T element) throws XML2JavaMapperException;
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Object> getTargetType() {
+        return Object.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getTargetDataBinding() {
+        return JavaBeansDataBinding.NAME;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaMapperException.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaMapperException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ae06d68e67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/javabeans/XML2JavaMapperException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.javabeans;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is used to encapsulate and rethrow exceptions that arise out
+ * of converting XML Data to Java Objects.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XML2JavaMapperException extends RuntimeException {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6596530102591630642L;
+    
+    private QName xmlElementName;
+    private String javaFieldName;
+    private Class javaType;
+
+    public XML2JavaMapperException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    public XML2JavaMapperException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    public QName getXmlElementName() {
+        return xmlElementName;
+    }
+
+    public void setXmlElementName(QName xmlElementName) {
+        this.xmlElementName = xmlElementName;
+    }
+
+    public String getJavaFieldName() {
+        return javaFieldName;
+    }
+
+    public void setJavaFieldName(String javaFieldName) {
+        this.javaFieldName = javaFieldName;
+    }
+
+    public Class getJavaType() {
+        return javaType;
+    }
+
+    public void setJavaType(Class javaType) {
+        this.javaType = javaType;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getMessage() {
+        return super.getMessage() + " <" + getJavaFieldName() + "> " + " in <" + getJavaType() + ">";
+    }
+    
+    
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/DataTypeHelper.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/DataTypeHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..847fcf226c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/DataTypeHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.util;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.GenericArrayType;
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;
+import java.lang.reflect.WildcardType;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Interface;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.WrapperInfo;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public final class DataTypeHelper {
+    private DataTypeHelper() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Find all classes referenced by this data type though java generics
+     * @param d
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static Set<Class<?>> findClasses(DataType d) {
+        Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
+        Set<Type> visited = new HashSet<Type>();
+        findClasses(d, classes, visited);
+        return classes;
+    }
+
+    private static void findClasses(DataType d, Set<Class<?>> classes, Set<Type> visited) {
+        if (d == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        classes.add(d.getPhysical());
+        if (d.getPhysical() != d.getGenericType()) {
+            findClasses(d.getGenericType(), classes, visited);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Find referenced classes in the generic type
+     * @param type
+     * @param classSet
+     * @param visited
+     */
+    private static void findClasses(Type type, Set<Class<?>> classSet, Set<Type> visited) {
+        if (visited.contains(type) || type == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        visited.add(type);
+        if (type instanceof Class) {
+            Class<?> cls = (Class<?>)type;
+            if (!cls.isInterface()) {
+                classSet.add(cls);
+            }
+            return;
+        } else if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) {
+            ParameterizedType pType = (ParameterizedType)type;
+            findClasses(pType.getRawType(), classSet, visited);
+            for (Type t : pType.getActualTypeArguments()) {
+                findClasses(t, classSet, visited);
+            }
+        } else if (type instanceof TypeVariable) {
+            TypeVariable<?> tv = (TypeVariable<?>)type;
+            for (Type t : tv.getBounds()) {
+                findClasses(t, classSet, visited);
+            }
+        } else if (type instanceof GenericArrayType) {
+            GenericArrayType gType = (GenericArrayType)type;
+            findClasses(gType, classSet, visited);
+        } else if (type instanceof WildcardType) {
+            WildcardType wType = (WildcardType)type;
+            for (Type t : wType.getLowerBounds()) {
+                findClasses(t, classSet, visited);
+            }
+            for (Type t : wType.getUpperBounds()) {
+                findClasses(t, classSet, visited);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get all the data types in the interface
+     * @param intf The interface
+     * @param useWrapper Use wrapper classes?
+     * @return A list of DataTypes
+     */
+    public static List<DataType> getDataTypes(Interface intf, boolean useWrapper) {
+        List<DataType> dataTypes = new ArrayList<DataType>();
+        for (Operation op : intf.getOperations()) {
+            getDataTypes(dataTypes, op, useWrapper);
+        }
+        return dataTypes;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get all the data types in the operation
+     * @param op The operation
+     * @param useWrapper Use wrapper classes?
+     * @return A list of DataTypes
+     */
+    public static List<DataType> getDataTypes(Operation op, boolean useWrapper) {
+        List<DataType> dataTypes = new ArrayList<DataType>();
+        getDataTypes(dataTypes, op, useWrapper);
+        return dataTypes;
+    }
+
+    private static void getDataTypes(List<DataType> dataTypes, Operation op, boolean useWrapper) {
+        WrapperInfo wrapper = op.getWrapper();
+        if (useWrapper && wrapper != null) {
+            DataType dt1 = wrapper.getInputWrapperType();
+            if (dt1 != null) {
+                dataTypes.add(dt1);
+            }
+            DataType dt2 = wrapper.getOutputWrapperType();
+            if (dt2 != null) {
+                dataTypes.add(dt2);
+            }
+        }
+        // FIXME: [rfeng] We may need to find the referenced classes in the child types
+        // else 
+        {
+            for (DataType dt1 : op.getInputType().getLogical()) {
+                dataTypes.add(dt1);
+            }
+            DataType dt2 = op.getOutputType();
+            if (dt2 != null) {
+                dataTypes.add(dt2);
+            }
+        }
+        for (DataType<DataType> dt3 : op.getFaultTypes()) {
+            DataType dt4 = dt3.getLogical();
+            if (dt4 != null) {
+                dataTypes.add(dt4);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/LRUCache.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/LRUCache.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..34a82fd2d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/util/LRUCache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.util;
+
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * A Simple LRU Cache
+ * 
+ * @version $Revision$
+ * @param <K>
+ * @param <V>
+ */
+
+public class LRUCache<K, V> extends LinkedHashMap<K, V> {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -342098639681884413L;
+    protected int maxCacheSize = 4096;
+
+    /**
+     * Default constructor for an LRU Cache The default capacity is 10000
+     */
+    public LRUCache() {
+        this(0, 4096, 0.75f, true);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a LRUCache with a maximum capacity
+     * 
+     * @param maximumCacheSize
+     */
+    public LRUCache(int maximumCacheSize) {
+        this(0, maximumCacheSize, 0.75f, true);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an empty <tt>LRUCache</tt> instance with the specified
+     * initial capacity, maximumCacheSize,load factor and ordering mode.
+     * 
+     * @param initialCapacity the initial capacity.
+     * @param maximumCacheSize
+     * @param loadFactor the load factor.
+     * @param accessOrder the ordering mode - <tt>true</tt> for access-order,
+     *                <tt>false</tt> for insertion-order.
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the initial capacity is negative or
+     *                 the load factor is non-positive.
+     */
+
+    public LRUCache(int initialCapacity, int maximumCacheSize, float loadFactor, boolean accessOrder) {
+        super(initialCapacity, loadFactor, accessOrder);
+        this.maxCacheSize = maximumCacheSize;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return Returns the maxCacheSize.
+     */
+    public int getMaxCacheSize() {
+        return maxCacheSize;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param maxCacheSize The maxCacheSize to set.
+     */
+    public void setMaxCacheSize(int maxCacheSize) {
+        this.maxCacheSize = maxCacheSize;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean removeEldestEntry(Map.Entry<K, V> eldest) {
+        return size() > maxCacheSize;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed59911a0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,300 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.beans.BeanInfo;
+import java.beans.Introspector;
+import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.reader.SimpleXmlNodeImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.reader.XmlNode;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.reader.XmlTreeStreamReaderImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.SimpleTypeMapper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.SimpleTypeMapperImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+
+/**
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl extends XmlTreeStreamReaderImpl {
+    private static final Comparator<Accessor> COMPARATOR = new Comparator<Accessor>() {
+        public int compare(Accessor o1, Accessor o2) {
+            return o1.getName().compareTo(o2.getName());
+        }
+    };
+
+    public static class BeanXmlNodeImpl extends SimpleXmlNodeImpl implements XmlNode {
+        private static final Object[] NULL = null;
+        private static final SimpleTypeMapper MAPPER = new SimpleTypeMapperImpl();
+
+        public BeanXmlNodeImpl(Object bean) {
+            super(getName(bean == null ? null : bean.getClass()), bean);
+        }
+
+        public BeanXmlNodeImpl(QName name, Object bean) {
+            super(name, bean);
+        }
+
+        private static boolean isSimpleType(Class<?> javaType) {
+            return MAPPER.getXMLType(javaType) != null;
+        }
+
+        private static String getStringValue(Object o) {
+            if (o == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            TypeInfo info = MAPPER.getXMLType(o.getClass());
+            if (info != null) {
+                return MAPPER.toXMLLiteral(info.getQName(), o, null);
+            } else {
+                return String.valueOf(o);
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Iterator<XmlNode> children() {
+            if (name == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            if (value == null) {
+                return super.children();
+            }
+            if (isSimpleType(value.getClass())) {
+                XmlNode textNode = new BeanXmlNodeImpl(null, value);
+                return Arrays.asList(textNode).iterator();
+            }
+            if (Map.class.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
+                List<XmlNode> entries = new ArrayList<XmlNode>();
+                QName entryName = new QName(name.getNamespaceURI(), "entry");
+                Map map = (Map)value;
+                if (map != null) {
+                    for (Object e : map.entrySet()) {
+                        Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry)e;
+                        entries.add(new BeanXmlNodeImpl(entryName, entry));
+                    }
+                }
+                return entries.iterator();
+            }
+            try {
+                Map<String, Accessor> accessorMap = getAccessors(value);
+                List<Accessor> accessorList = new ArrayList<Accessor>(accessorMap.values());
+                Collections.sort(accessorList, COMPARATOR);
+
+                List<XmlNode> props = new ArrayList<XmlNode>();
+                for (Accessor accessor : accessorList) {
+                    Class<?> pType = accessor.getType();
+
+                    QName pName = new QName(name.getNamespaceURI(), accessor.getName());
+                    Object pValue = accessor.getValue();
+                    if (pType.isArray()) {
+                        if (pValue != null) {
+                            int i1 = Array.getLength(pValue);
+                            for (int j = 0; j < i1; j++) {
+                                Object o = Array.get(pValue, j);
+                                props.add(new BeanXmlNodeImpl(pName, o));
+                            }
+                        } else {
+                            // TODO: How to handle null?
+                        }
+                    } else if (Collection.class.isAssignableFrom(pType)) {
+                        Collection objList = (Collection)pValue;
+                        if (objList != null && objList.size() > 0) {
+                            for (Iterator j = objList.iterator(); j.hasNext();) {
+                                Object o = j.next();
+                                props.add(new BeanXmlNodeImpl(pName, o));
+                            }
+
+                        } else {
+                            // How to handle null
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        props.add(new BeanXmlNodeImpl(pName, pValue));
+                    }
+                }
+                return props.iterator();
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public QName getName() {
+            return name;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String getValue() {
+            return getStringValue(value);
+        }
+        
+        private static String getPackageName(Class<?> cls) {
+            String name = cls.getName();
+            int index = name.lastIndexOf('.');
+            return index == -1 ? "" : name.substring(0, index);
+        }
+
+        public static QName getName(Class<?> cls) {
+            if (cls == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            String packageName = getPackageName(cls);
+
+            if ("".equals(packageName)) {
+                return new QName("", cls.getSimpleName());
+            }
+            StringBuffer ns = new StringBuffer("http://");
+            String[] names = packageName.split("\\.");
+            for (int i = names.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+                ns.append(names[i]);
+                if (i != 0) {
+                    ns.append('.');
+                }
+            }
+            ns.append('/');
+            return new QName(ns.toString(), cls.getSimpleName());
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public BeanXMLStreamReaderImpl(QName name, Object bean) {
+        super(getXmlNode(name, bean));
+    }
+
+    private static BeanXmlNodeImpl getXmlNode(QName name, Object bean) {
+        BeanXmlNodeImpl root = null;
+        if (name != null) {
+            root = new BeanXmlNodeImpl(name, bean);
+        } else {
+            root = new BeanXmlNodeImpl(bean);
+        }
+        return root;
+    }
+
+    public static interface Accessor {
+        String getName();
+
+        Class<?> getType();
+
+        Object getValue() throws Exception;
+
+        void setValue(Object value) throws Exception;
+    }
+
+    private static class FieldAccessor implements Accessor {
+        private Object target;
+        private Field field;
+
+        public FieldAccessor(Object target, Field field) {
+            super();
+            this.target = target;
+            this.field = field;
+            this.field.setAccessible(true);
+        }
+
+        public String getName() {
+            return field.getName();
+        }
+
+        public Object getValue() throws Exception {
+            return field.get(target);
+        }
+
+        public void setValue(Object value) throws Exception {
+            field.set(target, value);
+        }
+
+        public Class<?> getType() {
+            return field.getType();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private static class PropertyAccessor implements Accessor {
+        private Object target;
+        private PropertyDescriptor prop;
+
+        public PropertyAccessor(Object target, PropertyDescriptor prop) {
+            super();
+            this.target = target;
+            this.prop = prop;
+        }
+
+        public String getName() {
+            return prop.getName();
+        }
+
+        public Class<?> getType() {
+            return prop.getPropertyType();
+        }
+
+        public Object getValue() throws Exception {
+            Method getter = prop.getReadMethod();
+            if (getter != null) {
+                getter.setAccessible(true);
+                return getter.invoke(target);
+            }
+            throw new IllegalAccessException("The property cannot be read: " + getName());
+        }
+
+        public void setValue(Object value) throws Exception {
+            Method setter = prop.getWriteMethod();
+            if (setter != null) {
+                setter.setAccessible(true);
+                setter.invoke(target);
+            }
+            throw new IllegalAccessException("The property cannot be written: " + getName());
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private static Map<String, Accessor> getAccessors(Object target) throws Exception {
+        if (target == null) {
+            return Collections.emptyMap();
+        }
+        Map<String, Accessor> map = new HashMap<String, Accessor>();
+        Class<?> type = target.getClass();
+        for (Field f : type.getFields()) {
+            map.put(f.getName(), new FieldAccessor(target, f));
+        }
+        BeanInfo info = Introspector.getBeanInfo(type, Object.class);
+        for (PropertyDescriptor p : info.getPropertyDescriptors()) {
+            // if (p.getReadMethod() != null && p.getWriteMethod() != null) {
+                map.put(p.getName(), new PropertyAccessor(target, p));
+            // }
+        }
+        return map;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed0b5c9923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.WrapperHandler;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * DOM DataBinding
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class DOMDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    public static final String NAME = Node.class.getName();
+
+    public static final String ROOT_NAMESPACE = "http://tuscany.apache.org/xmlns/sca/databinding/dom/1.0";
+    public static final QName ROOT_ELEMENT = new QName(ROOT_NAMESPACE, "root");
+    
+    private DOMHelper domHelper;
+
+    public DOMDataBinding(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super(NAME, Node.class);
+        this.domHelper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public WrapperHandler getWrapperHandler() {
+        return new DOMWrapperHandler(domHelper);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object copy(Object source, DataType dataType, Operation operation) {
+        if (Node.class.isAssignableFrom(source.getClass())) {
+            Node nodeSource = (Node)source;
+            return nodeSource.cloneNode(true);
+        }
+        return super.copy(source, dataType, operation);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        if (Node.class.isAssignableFrom(type.getPhysical())) {
+            if (type.getLogical() == null) {
+                type.setLogical(new XMLType(ROOT_ELEMENT, null));
+            }
+            type.setDataBinding(NAME);
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param context
+     * @param element
+     */
+    public static Element adjustElementName(TransformationContext context, Element element) {
+        if (context != null) {
+            DataType dataType = context.getTargetDataType();
+            Object logical = dataType == null ? null : dataType.getLogical();
+            if (!(logical instanceof XMLType)) {
+                return element;
+            }
+            XMLType xmlType = (XMLType)logical;
+            QName name = new QName(element.getNamespaceURI(), element.getLocalName());
+            if (xmlType.isElement() && !xmlType.getElementName().equals(name)) {
+                QName newName = xmlType.getElementName();
+                String prefix = newName.getPrefix();
+                String qname = newName.getLocalPart();
+                if (prefix != null && !prefix.equals("")) {
+                    qname = prefix + ":" + qname;
+                }
+                Document doc = element.getOwnerDocument();
+                Element newElement = doc.createElementNS(newName.getNamespaceURI(), qname);
+                // Copy the attributes to the new element
+                NamedNodeMap attrs = element.getAttributes();
+                for (int i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) {
+                    Attr attr = (Attr)doc.importNode(attrs.item(i), true);
+                    newElement.getAttributes().setNamedItem(attr);
+                }
+    
+                // Move all the children
+                while (element.hasChildNodes()) {
+                    newElement.appendChild(element.getFirstChild());
+                }
+    
+                // Replace the old node with the new node
+                if (element.getParentNode() != null) {
+                    element.getParentNode().replaceChild(newElement, element);
+                }
+    
+                return newElement;
+            }
+        }
+        return element;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMWrapperHandler.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMWrapperHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ce5dc6c69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/DOMWrapperHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.WrapperHandler;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.impl.DataTypeImpl;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.ElementInfo;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.WrapperInfo;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+
+public class DOMWrapperHandler implements WrapperHandler<Node> {
+    private DOMHelper domHelper;
+    
+    public DOMWrapperHandler(DOMHelper domHelper) {
+        super();
+        this.domHelper = domHelper;
+    }
+
+    public Node create(Operation operation, boolean input) {
+
+        WrapperInfo wrapperInfo = operation.getWrapper();
+        ElementInfo element = input ? wrapperInfo.getInputWrapperElement() : wrapperInfo.getOutputWrapperElement();
+        // Class<?> wrapperClass = input ? wrapperInfo.getInputWrapperClass() : wrapperInfo.getOutputWrapperClass();
+        Document document = domHelper.newDocument();
+        QName name = element.getQName();
+        return DOMHelper.createElement(document, name);
+    }
+
+    public void setChildren(Node wrapper,
+                            Object[] childObjects,
+                            Operation operation, boolean input) {
+        List<ElementInfo> childElements = input? operation.getWrapper().getInputChildElements():
+            operation.getWrapper().getOutputChildElements();
+        for (int i = 0; i < childElements.size(); i++) {
+            setChild(wrapper, i, childElements.get(i), childObjects[i]);
+        }
+
+    }
+    public void setChild(Node wrapper, int i, ElementInfo childElement, Object value) {
+        Node node = (Node)value;
+        if (node.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) {
+            node = ((Document)node).getDocumentElement();
+        }
+        wrapper.appendChild(wrapper.getOwnerDocument().importNode(node, true));
+    }
+
+    public List getChildren(Node wrapper, Operation operation, boolean input) {
+        assert wrapper != null;
+        List<ElementInfo> childElements = input? operation.getWrapper().getInputChildElements():
+            operation.getWrapper().getOutputChildElements();
+        if (wrapper.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) {
+            wrapper = ((Document)wrapper).getDocumentElement();
+        }
+        List<Node> elements = new ArrayList<Node>();
+        NodeList nodes = wrapper.getChildNodes();
+        for (int j = 0; j < nodes.getLength(); j++) {
+            Node node = nodes.item(j);
+            if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+                elements.add(node);
+            }
+        }
+        return elements;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.WrapperHandler#getWrapperType(Operation, boolean)
+     */
+    public DataType getWrapperType(Operation operation, boolean input) {
+        WrapperInfo wrapper = operation.getWrapper();
+        ElementInfo element = input? wrapper.getInputWrapperElement(): wrapper.getOutputWrapperElement();
+        DataType<XMLType> wrapperType =
+            new DataTypeImpl<XMLType>(DOMDataBinding.NAME, Node.class, new XMLType(element));
+        return wrapperType;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isInstance(Object wrapperObj,
+                              Operation operation,
+                              boolean input) {
+        WrapperInfo wrapperInfo = operation.getWrapper();
+        ElementInfo element = input ? wrapperInfo.getInputWrapperElement() : wrapperInfo.getOutputWrapperElement();
+        List<ElementInfo> childElements =
+            input ? wrapperInfo.getInputChildElements() : wrapperInfo.getOutputChildElements();
+        Node wrapper = (Node)wrapperObj;
+        if (wrapper.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) {
+            wrapper = ((Document)wrapper).getDocumentElement();
+        }
+        QName elementName = new QName(wrapper.getNamespaceURI(), wrapper.getLocalName());
+        if (!element.getQName().equals(elementName)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Set<QName> names = new HashSet<QName>();
+        for (ElementInfo e : childElements) {
+            names.add(e.getQName());
+        }
+        NodeList nodes = wrapper.getChildNodes();
+        for (int j = 0; j < nodes.getLength(); j++) {
+            Node node = nodes.item(j);
+            if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+                elementName = new QName(wrapper.getNamespaceURI(), wrapper.getLocalName());
+                if (!names.contains(elementName)) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5f583da283
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * Push DOM InputSource to Node
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class InputSource2Node extends BaseTransformer<InputSource, Node> implements
+    PullTransformer<InputSource, Node> {
+    private static final Source2ResultTransformer TRANSFORMER = new Source2ResultTransformer();
+
+    public Node transform(InputSource source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Source streamSource = new StreamSource(source.getCharacterStream());
+            DOMResult result = new DOMResult();
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(streamSource, result, context);
+            return result.getNode();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<InputSource> getSourceType() {
+        return InputSource.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2SAX.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2SAX.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..39116ba4a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputSource2SAX.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
+import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Push InputSource to SAX
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class InputSource2SAX extends BaseTransformer<InputSource, ContentHandler> implements
+    PushTransformer<InputSource, ContentHandler> {
+
+    public void transform(InputSource source, ContentHandler target, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
+            reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
+            reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", false);
+            reader.setContentHandler(target);
+            reader.parse(source);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<InputSource> getSourceType() {
+        return InputSource.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<ContentHandler> getTargetType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e40c3006fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;
+import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * Push DOM InputSource to Node
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class InputStream2Node extends BaseTransformer<InputStream, Node> implements
+    PullTransformer<InputStream, Node> {
+    private static final Source2ResultTransformer TRANSFORMER = new Source2ResultTransformer();
+
+    public Node transform(InputStream source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Source streamSource = new SAXSource(new InputSource(source));
+            DOMResult result = new DOMResult();
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(streamSource, result, context);
+            return result.getNode();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<InputStream> getSourceType() {
+        return InputStream.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2SAX.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2SAX.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3b7bd3088a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/InputStream2SAX.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
+import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Push InputStream to SAX
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class InputStream2SAX extends BaseTransformer<InputStream, ContentHandler> implements
+    PushTransformer<InputStream, ContentHandler> {
+    public void transform(InputStream source, ContentHandler target, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
+            reader.setContentHandler(target);
+            reader.parse(new InputSource(source));
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<InputStream> getSourceType() {
+        return InputStream.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<ContentHandler> getTargetType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2OutputStream.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2OutputStream.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5500d0bcca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2OutputStream.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Result;
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Push DOM Node to OutputStream
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2OutputStream extends BaseTransformer<Node, OutputStream> implements
+    PushTransformer<Node, OutputStream> {
+    private static final Source2ResultTransformer TRANSFORMER = new Source2ResultTransformer();
+
+    public void transform(Node source, OutputStream writer, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Source domSource = new DOMSource(source);
+            Result result = new StreamResult(writer);
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(domSource, result, context);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<OutputStream> getTargetType() {
+        return OutputStream.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SimpleJavaType.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SimpleJavaType.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5bf7e76b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SimpleJavaType.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.SimpleType2JavaTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from a simple java Object to OMElement.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2SimpleJavaType extends SimpleType2JavaTransformer<Node> {
+
+    @Override
+    protected String getText(Node source) {
+        if (source instanceof Document) {
+            source = ((Document)source).getDocumentElement();
+        }
+        return source.getTextContent();
+
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SourceTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SourceTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c9022bc3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2SourceTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transform TrAX Node to Source
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2SourceTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Node, Source> implements
+    PullTransformer<Node, Source> {
+
+    public Source transform(Node source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            return new DOMSource(source);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Source> getTargetType() {
+        return Source.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2String.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2String.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b54b1fd1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2String.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transform DOM Node to XML String
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2String extends BaseTransformer<Node, String> implements PullTransformer<Node, String> {
+    private static final Node2Writer TRANSFORMER = new Node2Writer();
+
+    public String transform(Node source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(source, writer, context);
+            return writer.toString();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<Node> getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<String> getTargetType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2Writer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2Writer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c9631595dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2Writer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Result;
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Push DOM Node to Writer
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2Writer extends BaseTransformer<Node, Writer> implements PushTransformer<Node, Writer> {
+    private static final Source2ResultTransformer TRANSFORMER = new Source2ResultTransformer();
+
+    public void transform(Node source, Writer writer, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Source domSource = new DOMSource(source);
+            Result result = new StreamResult(writer);
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(domSource, result, context);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Writer> getTargetType() {
+        return Writer.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2XMLStreamReader.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2XMLStreamReader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d89a26cab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Node2XMLStreamReader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.reader.DOMXMLStreamReader;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transform DOM Node to XML XMLStreamReader
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Node2XMLStreamReader extends BaseTransformer<Node, XMLStreamReader> implements
+    PullTransformer<Node, XMLStreamReader> {
+
+    public XMLStreamReader transform(Node source, TransformationContext context) {
+        if (source == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            DOMXMLStreamReader reader = new DOMXMLStreamReader(source);
+            return reader;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getSourceType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getTargetType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70387fa862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.Reader;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Push DOM Reader to Node
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Reader2Node extends BaseTransformer<Reader, Node> implements PullTransformer<Reader, Node> {
+    private static final Source2ResultTransformer TRANSFORMER = new Source2ResultTransformer();
+
+    public Node transform(Reader source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Source streamSource = new StreamSource(source);
+            DOMResult result = new DOMResult();
+            TRANSFORMER.transform(streamSource, result, context);
+            return result.getNode();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Reader> getSourceType() {
+        return Reader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2SAX.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2SAX.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..188ecaffa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Reader2SAX.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.Reader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * Transform XML string to SAX
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Reader2SAX extends BaseTransformer<Reader, ContentHandler> implements
+    PushTransformer<Reader, ContentHandler> {
+    public void transform(Reader source, ContentHandler target, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            new InputSource2SAX().transform(new InputSource(source), target, context);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Reader> getSourceType() {
+        return Reader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<ContentHandler> getTargetType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SAX2DOMPipe.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SAX2DOMPipe.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6b3c05462
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SAX2DOMPipe.java
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+
+public class SAX2DOMPipe extends BaseTransformer<ContentHandler, Node> implements DataPipeTransformer<ContentHandler, Node> {
+    private DOMHelper domHelper;
+    /**
+     * 
+     */
+    public SAX2DOMPipe(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        domHelper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer#newInstance()
+     */
+    public DataPipe<ContentHandler, Node> newInstance() {
+        return new Pipe();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<ContentHandler> getSourceType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 30;
+    }
+
+    private class Pipe implements DataPipe<ContentHandler, Node> {
+        private DOMHelper.NodeContentHandler pipe;
+
+        public Pipe() {
+            super();
+            this.pipe = domHelper.createContentHandler(null);
+        }
+
+        public Node getResult() {
+            return pipe.getNode();
+        }
+
+        public ContentHandler getSink() {
+            return pipe;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SimpleJavaType2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SimpleJavaType2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0bb13bb3ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/SimpleJavaType2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.Java2SimpleTypeTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transformer to convert data from an simple OMElement to Java Object
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class SimpleJavaType2Node extends Java2SimpleTypeTransformer<Node> {
+    private DOMHelper helper;
+    
+    public SimpleJavaType2Node(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        helper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    protected Node createElement(QName element, String text, TransformationContext context) {
+        if (element == null) {
+            element = DOMDataBinding.ROOT_ELEMENT;
+        }
+        Document factory = helper.newDocument();
+        Node root = DOMHelper.createElement(factory, element);
+        if (text != null) {
+            root.appendChild(factory.createTextNode(text));
+        } else {
+            Attr nil = factory.createAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "xsi:nil");
+            nil.setValue("true");
+            root.appendChild(nil);
+        }
+        return root;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2NodeTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2NodeTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54b281acb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2NodeTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Transform TrAX Source to Node
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Source2NodeTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Source, Node> implements
+    PullTransformer<Source, Node> {
+    private DOMHelper helper;
+    
+    public Source2NodeTransformer(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        helper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    public Node transform(Source source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            Document doc = helper.load(source);
+            return DOMDataBinding.adjustElementName(context, doc.getDocumentElement());
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Source> getSourceType() {
+        return Source.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2ResultTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2ResultTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a2b6b39aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2ResultTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Result;
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+/**
+ * Transform TrAX Source to Result
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Source2ResultTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Source, Result> implements
+    PushTransformer<Source, Result> {
+    private static final TransformerFactory FACTORY = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+
+    public void transform(Source source, Result result, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = FACTORY.newTransformer();
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Source> getSourceType() {
+        return Source.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Result> getTargetType() {
+        return Result.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2StringTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2StringTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ed548ad76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Source2StringTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+/**
+ * Transform TrAX Source to String
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class Source2StringTransformer extends BaseTransformer<Source, String> implements
+    PullTransformer<Source, String> {
+    private static final TransformerFactory FACTORY = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+
+    public String transform(Source source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = FACTORY.newTransformer();
+            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+            return sw.toString();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Source> getSourceType() {
+        return Source.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getTargetType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StAXDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StAXDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed57992910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StAXDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * A DataBinding for the StAX
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class StAXDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    public static final String NAME = XMLStreamReader.class.getName();
+
+    public StAXDataBinding() {
+        super(NAME, XMLStreamReader.class);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        if (super.introspect(type, operation)) {
+            type.setLogical(XMLType.UNKNOWN);
+            type.setDataBinding(NAME);
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StreamDataPipe.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StreamDataPipe.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8967e35b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/StreamDataPipe.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+public class StreamDataPipe extends BaseTransformer<OutputStream, InputStream> implements
+    DataPipeTransformer<OutputStream, InputStream> {
+
+    public DataPipe<OutputStream, InputStream> newInstance() {
+        return new Pipe();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<InputStream> getTargetType() {
+        return InputStream.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<OutputStream> getSourceType() {
+        return OutputStream.class;
+    }
+
+    public static class Pipe implements DataPipe<OutputStream, InputStream> {
+        private ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+        public InputStream getResult() {
+            return new ByteArrayInputStream(outputStream.toByteArray());
+        }
+
+        public OutputStream getSink() {
+            return outputStream;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..548342094e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.dom.DOMHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+public class String2Node extends BaseTransformer<String, Node> implements PullTransformer<String, Node> {
+    private DOMHelper helper;
+    
+    public String2Node(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        super();
+        helper = DOMHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    public Node transform(String source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            return helper.load(source);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getSourceType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SAX.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SAX.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c56dba1843
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SAX.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * Transform XML string to SAX
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class String2SAX extends BaseTransformer<String, ContentHandler> implements
+    PushTransformer<String, ContentHandler> {
+
+    public void transform(String source, ContentHandler target, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            new InputSource2SAX().transform(new InputSource(new StringReader(source)), target, context);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getSourceType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<ContentHandler> getTargetType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SourceTransformer.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SourceTransformer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2de202a9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2SourceTransformer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+/**
+ * Transform XML String to Source
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class String2SourceTransformer extends BaseTransformer<String, Source> implements
+    PullTransformer<String, Source> {
+
+    public Source transform(String source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            return new StreamSource(new StringReader(source));
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getSourceType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Source> getTargetType() {
+        return Source.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2XMLStreamReader.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2XMLStreamReader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac46bfd3d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/String2XMLStreamReader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.StAXHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+public class String2XMLStreamReader extends BaseTransformer<String, XMLStreamReader> implements
+    PullTransformer<String, XMLStreamReader> {
+    private StAXHelper helper;
+    
+    public String2XMLStreamReader(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        helper = StAXHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    public XMLStreamReader transform(String source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            return helper.createXMLStreamReader(source);
+        } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getSourceType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getTargetType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Writer2ReaderDataPipe.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Writer2ReaderDataPipe.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ab7272d58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/Writer2ReaderDataPipe.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipeTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+public class Writer2ReaderDataPipe extends BaseTransformer<Writer, Reader> implements DataPipeTransformer<Writer, Reader> {
+
+    public DataPipe<Writer, Reader> newInstance() {
+        return new Pipe();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Reader> getTargetType() {
+        return Reader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 50;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Writer> getSourceType() {
+        return Writer.class;
+    }
+
+    private static class Pipe implements DataPipe<Writer, Reader> {
+        private StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+
+        public Reader getResult() {
+            return new StringReader(writer.toString());
+        }
+
+        public Writer getSink() {
+            return writer;
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLGroupDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLGroupDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7c895db1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLGroupDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLEventReader;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLEventWriter;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.GroupDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * A Group DataBinding
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XMLGroupDataBinding extends GroupDataBinding {
+
+    public XMLGroupDataBinding() {
+        super(new Class[] {InputStream.class, OutputStream.class, Reader.class, Writer.class, 
+                           // Source.class, Result.class, 
+                           InputSource.class, ContentHandler.class, XMLStreamReader.class,
+                           XMLStreamWriter.class, XMLEventReader.class, XMLEventWriter.class});
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Object getLogical(Class<?> markerType, Operation operation) {
+        return XMLType.UNKNOWN;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2Node.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2Node.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ebfcf06e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2Node.java
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.DataPipe;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+
+/**
+ * Transform DOM Node to XML XMLStreamReader
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XMLStreamReader2Node extends BaseTransformer<XMLStreamReader, Node> implements
+    PullTransformer<XMLStreamReader, Node> {
+
+    private XMLStreamReader2SAX stax2sax;
+    private SAX2DOMPipe sax2domPipe;
+    
+    public XMLStreamReader2Node(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        stax2sax = new XMLStreamReader2SAX(registry);
+        sax2domPipe = new SAX2DOMPipe(registry);
+    }
+
+    public Node transform(XMLStreamReader source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            DataPipe<ContentHandler, Node> pipe = sax2domPipe.newInstance();
+            stax2sax.transform(source, pipe.getSink(), context);
+            Node node = pipe.getResult();
+            source.close();
+            if (node instanceof Document) {
+                Document doc = (Document)node;
+                return DOMDataBinding.adjustElementName(context, doc.getDocumentElement());
+            } else {
+                return node;
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getSourceType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<Node> getTargetType() {
+        return Node.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2SAX.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2SAX.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a45c563293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2SAX.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.StAXHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+
+/**
+ * XMLStreamReader to SAX events
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XMLStreamReader2SAX extends BaseTransformer<XMLStreamReader, ContentHandler> implements
+    PushTransformer<XMLStreamReader, ContentHandler> {
+    
+    private StAXHelper helper;
+    
+    public XMLStreamReader2SAX(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        helper = StAXHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    protected Class<ContentHandler> getTargetType() {
+        return ContentHandler.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getSourceType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer#getWeight()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 20;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PushTransformer#transform(java.lang.Object,
+     *      java.lang.Object,
+     *      org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext)
+     */
+    public void transform(XMLStreamReader source, ContentHandler sink, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            helper.saveAsSAX(source, sink);
+            source.close();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2String.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2String.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa06303433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStreamReader2String.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.StAXHelper;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.core.ExtensionPointRegistry;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.PullTransformer;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationContext;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.TransformationException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseTransformer;
+
+public class XMLStreamReader2String extends BaseTransformer<XMLStreamReader, String> implements
+    PullTransformer<XMLStreamReader, String> {
+    private StAXHelper helper;
+    
+    public XMLStreamReader2String(ExtensionPointRegistry registry) {
+        helper = StAXHelper.getInstance(registry);
+    }
+    
+    public String transform(XMLStreamReader source, TransformationContext context) {
+        try {
+            String str = helper.saveAsString(source);
+            source.close();
+            return str;
+        } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
+            throw new TransformationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<XMLStreamReader> getSourceType() {
+        return XMLStreamReader.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<String> getTargetType() {
+        return String.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWeight() {
+        return 40;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStringDataBinding.java b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStringDataBinding.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..22b173dce5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/trunk/modules/databinding/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/xml/XMLStringDataBinding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.xml;
+
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.impl.BaseDataBinding;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Operation;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.XMLType;
+
+/**
+ * A DataBinding for the XML string
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public class XMLStringDataBinding extends BaseDataBinding {
+    public static final String NAME = String.class.getName();
+
+    public XMLStringDataBinding() {
+        super(NAME, String.class);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean introspect(DataType type, Operation operation) {
+        if (type.getPhysical() == String.class && NAME.equals(type.getDataBinding())) {
+            type.setDataBinding(NAME);
+            type.setLogical(XMLType.UNKNOWN);
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+}