Use Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) tooling to generate an XML schema file from Java classes.
Use JAXB APIs and tools to establish mappings between an Java classes and XML schema. XML schema documents describe the data elements and relationships in an XML document. After a data mapping or binding exists, you can convert XML documents to and from Java objects. You can now access data stored in an XML document without the need to understand the data structure.
You can create an XML schema document from an existing Java application that represents the data elements of a Java application by using the JAXB schema generator, schemagen command-line tool. The JAXB schema generator processes either Java source files or class files. Java class annotations provide the capability to customize the default mappings from existing Java classes to the generated schema components. The XML schema file along with the annotated Java class files contain all the necessary information that the JAXB runtime requires to parse the XML documents for marshaling and unmarshaling.
Now that you have generated an XML schema file from Java classes, you are ready to marshal and unmarshal the Java objects as XML instance documents.
Error: Two classes have the same XML type name .... Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them...This error indicates you have class names or @XMLType.name values that have the same name, but exist within different Java packages. To prevent this error, add the @XML.Type.namespace class to the existing @XMLType annotation to differentiate between the XML types.gotcha
package generated; import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType; import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType; import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute; import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement; import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType; import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar; @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD) @XmlType(name = "bookdata", propOrder = { "author", "title", "genre", "price", "publishDate", "description" }) public class Bookdata { @XmlElement(required = true) protected String author; @XmlElement(required = true) protected String title; @XmlElement(required = true) protected String genre; protected float price; @XmlElement(name = "publish_date", required = true) protected XMLGregorianCalendar publishDate; @XmlElement(required = true) protected String description; @XmlAttribute protected String id; public String getAuthor() { return author; } public void setAuthor(String value) { this.author = value; } public String getTitle() { return title; } public void setTitle(String value) { this.title = value; } public String getGenre() { return genre; } public void setGenre(String value) { this.genre = value; } public float getPrice() { return price; } public void setPrice(float value) { this.price = value; } public XMLGregorianCalendar getPublishDate() { return publishDate; } public void setPublishDate(XMLGregorianCalendar value) { this.publishDate = value; } public String getDescription() { return description; } public void setDescription(String value) { this.description = value; } public String getId() { return id; } public void setId(String value) { this.id = value; } }
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <xs:schema version="1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:complexType name="bookdata"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="author" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="genre" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="price" type="xs:float"/> <xs:element name="publish_date" type="xs:anySimpleType"/> <xs:element name="description" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:string"/> </xs:complexType> </xs:schema>
Refer to the JAXB 2.0 Reference implementation documentation for additional information about the schemagen command.
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