OSB: passing a OSB variable to a Java Callout

If you declare a Java static function with an input parameter of type Employee, and your $body contains a valid Employee structure, and you try to pass it to the Java callout as it is, you will get a wonderful:

Value of type 'org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.values.XmlAnyTypeImpl' cannot be type-cast to Employee

The reason being that internally OSB represents every variable (including $body) as a
https://www.docjar.com/docs/api/org/apache/xmlbeans/impl/values/XmlAnyTypeImpl.html

which implements the XmlObject interface, as specified here in the OSB Java Callout doc:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/eclipsehelp/ui_ref.html#sj_uiSplitJoinJavaCalloutProperties



No fear! In your Java code, you can use my fantastic XMLLoader class, do a toString on the XmlObject and parse it into the Java class using JAXB:

http://javatoolsforweblogic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xmlLoader/XMLLoader.java