I have a web service that returns Dates.  Imagine something simple like:

  | @WebMethod
  | Date getCurrentBusinessDate()
  | 

In this case, I am only interested in a Date (not a Time or Date Time).  This 
is by design because otherwise one might go down the road of considering Time 
Zones, etc. -- and that is not necessary for this case.

When running something like this, we see a full date/time appear in the SOAP 
result. Sure, the time is zero/midnight, but it also mentions a time zone 
(which really shouldn't be there, but seems to be impossible to get rid of).

By rights, I really only want to see a Date transmitted (like YYYY-MM-DD).  In 
JPA, for example, I use a Date type but qualify it with a @Temporal annotation 
to clarify the TemporalType (Date, Time, DateTime).  I see that JAXB has 
similar distinctions (xsd:date, xsd:time, xsd:dateTime).

Is there a way to annotate the web method so the return value is clarified to 
be an xsd:date?


Secondly...  Is there a material difference between using java.util.Date vs. 
java.util.Calendar?  (Is one really preferred over the other?)  If I am writing 
Java-first Web Services, should I be using Date or Calendar to represent dates?


Thanks for your help!

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