Hi Bill, I'm not a developer either; but have used the xsd2jibx tool. It generally will work with most schema constructs. A few warnings that I can remember from using it:
1) Be sure to use the same version of the jibx jars that come with it. I know from experience that if you try to upgrade it yourself it will fail. 2) It doesn't quite handle <xsd:choice> elements correctly. You may have to correct those yourself. Overall, it does an acceptable job of generating your classes and a binding.xml file to start with. It's certainly better that starting from scratch. The best advice is to simply try it & then write some JUnit tests to make sure you can marshall/unmarshall with the results. BTW, you can use the latest version of the runtime & binding compiler with the generated classes. Marty Bill Bailey wrote: > Does anyone know if JiBX developers monitor this list? > > Also, in general I'm wondering if anyone has experiences to share in > terms of level of support for JiBX. Let me start by saying I understand > that this is an open source project and I am fully appreciative of the > willingness of others to share the fruit of their efforts. That said, > the amount of support available simply has to be a criteria for me in > deciding whether to use a product and in the week or so I've been on > this mailing list, I've seen only questions. I think I've only seen one > person actually answer a question and that makes me a little nervous > when we're about to undertake a large effort with JiBX as one of the key > pieces. > > I would have thought my question would be a no-brainer for someone on > the dev team to answer even if the answer is just "I don't know", but I > haven't seen any response at all. > > Bill Bailey > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:09:59 -0500, "Bill Bailey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hi, >> >> I noticed several references to newer versions on the web site, >> including 1.2 and 2.0. It appears that the first beta version of 1.2 was >> initially planned for Jan 2007, but since it doesn't yet appear for >> download I am guessing this didn't happen per the original schedule. >> There is reference to version 2.0 being available initially in Apr 2007, >> but no further updates that I could find. >> >> Can someone provide an update regarding when each of these releases is >> expected to be available? >> >> In particular, I'm interested in some of the features that allow code >> and binding mapping generation from an XML Schema. We are planning to >> use Spring Web Services which follows a contract first approach, >> beginning with the XML Schema. Although I have found the documentation >> on the binding mappings quite good, we are a small shop (less than 3 >> full time developers) and any tools that can make us more productive >> (i.e. less hand written code) is a good thing. I like the concept of >> using the XML Schema to initially generate the Java code and mapping, >> but still having the ability to modify both the XML Schema and Java code >> as needed as the design evolves, but it appears the separate beta >> versions of these tools may not be ready for prime time. Any comments on >> what the approach might be in the interim? Until the full set of tools >> is available in 1.2 or 2.0? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Bill Bailey >> Senior Developer / DBA >> Northland, A Church Distributed >> ------------------------------ >> -- Bill Bailey -- >> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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