xmlbeans - generating paths that are too long on Windows

[Samuel B. Quiring]

Greetings,   Maybe I'm the only one to ever hit this problem, but I'm having significant difficulty with xmlBeans and the Windows file system.  Windows limits the length of a full path to 255 characters.  However, it must possible programmatically create folders and files whose full paths are too long, because xmlBeans is doing it.  Since doing this is going to inevitably create problems downstream, I believe it is a bug that xmlBeans is doing this on Windows.  I agree that Windows having a 255 character limit is really dumb, but that's how it is.   My initial suggestion is that xmlBeans on Windows, as it is creating the folder hierarchy, should detect if the full path of a file or folder is longer than 255 characters and if it is -- issue a pinpointing diagnostic and terminate with an error.  This would have saved me about an hour.  It would be friendlier if xmlBeans, upon encountering this error, would continue examining the remaining folders and files to be created and report all of them that are too long.   I'm brand new to xmlBeans.  I am guessing that maybe the best way to deal with this is to create the .jar file (default name: xmltypes.jar) instead of generating all the sources into my project.  Is that what is recommended?  I'm starting down this path, but having some problems conveying the correct classpath from Ant into the xmlbeans Ant task.  I'm still working on this.   -Sam   My Eclipse project has the path C:\Cayuse\615\dev\eclipse\cayuse.clients.elsub, which has 46 characters.  Naturally I wanted the Ant task to build everything in subfolders in this project.  Here's my current Ant commands for xmlBeans:   <taskdef name="xmlbean" classname="org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.tool.XMLBean" classpath="./lib/xbean.jar;./lib/jsr173_api.jar" />   <target name="xmlbean.compile.schema">     <xmlbean schema="schema" srconly="true" srcgendir="./src" classgendir="./classes" /> </target>   Here's an example diagnostic I received from the above xmlBeans Ant task run from within Eclipse:   xmlbean.compile.schema: [xmlbean] Time to build schema type system: 2.813 seconds BUILD FAILED: C:\Cayuse\615\dev\eclipse\cayuse.clients.elsub\build.xml:25: org.apache.xmlbeans.SchemaTypeLoaderException: C:\Cayuse\615\dev\eclipse\cayuse.clients.elsub\classes\schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans\javaname\gov\nih\era\projectmgmt\sbir\cgap\nihspecificNamespace\ResearchApplicationExtensionDocument\ResearchApplicationExtension\NewApplicationQualifiers\SBIRQuestions\Phase2Details.xsb (The system cannot find the path specified) (schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans.system.sA50776AFD0F50C12DA7A7CA6F2FA7F35.schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans/javaname/gov/nih/era/projectmgmt/sbir/cgap/nihspecificNamespace/ResearchApplicationExtensionDocument/ResearchApplicationExtension/NewApplicationQualifiers/SBIRQuestions/Phase2Details) - code 9 Total time: 6 seconds   What is "code 9"?  I looked at the path specified and I was able to navigate to the file and I saw it, so this really faked me out.   Here's the path mentioned in the above error that is the problem, broken into 80 character lines with the exact character count of the last partial line shown (i.e., starting at 241):   C:\Cayuse\615dev\eclipse\cayuse.clients.elsub\classes\schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans\ javaname\gov\nih\era\projectmgmt\sbir\cgap\nihspecificNamespace\ResearchApplicat ionExtensionDocument\ResearchApplicationExtension\NewApplicationQualifiers\SBIRQ uestions\Phase2Details.xsb 2        2         2 4        5         6 12345678901234567890123456