Question

I have a XSD file, from which I want to generate C# and Java classes as well.

I first set the namespace in the XSD according to my C# namespace where my classes resides. The generation (with the Microsoft tools) works fine and also the serialisation works great and I can validat them against the XSD – perfect.

Now I want to create java classes with JAXB.
The problem is that the classes which are going to be created have a different package structure then the one in C#. So when I set the XSD namespace to the package structure of java, it works fine. I can serialize and validate the XML.

Now my question(s):
Is there a way to solve this? (Have one XSD for both generation tools)
Do I lack a understanding of what the namespace actually is needed for?

Thank you

Edit: Since it seems to be that there is a missunderstanding, I added an example

XSD: targetNamespace = “http://foo.bar/mySubNs/model”

• C# Modelnamespace: com.foo.mySubNs.model (which fits the XSD namespace)
  all generated classes will have the same namespace provided though the MS codegen
• Java Modelnamespace : com.foo.myOtherSubNs.model (which differs from the XSD namespace)
  the generated classes will have the “C# namespace”. As a result the classes will not compile.

If I would change the namespace during the code generation for java, I can compile the classes. So far so good. But I won’t be able to validate the generated XML by that java classes against the XSD, since the namespace differs.

To marshall my objects in Java, I use JAXB like this:

  ValidationEventCollector validationCollector = new ValidationEventCollector();
  SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
  Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(new File ("my/schema/location"));

  // JAXB_CONTEXT is just an instance of "JAXBContext"
  Marshaller marshaller = JAXB_CONTEXT.createMarshaller();    

  marshaller.setSchema(schema);

  marshaller.setEventHandler(validationCollector);

  marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
  marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);

  JAXBElement<MyClass> root = new JAXBElement<MyClass> (  new QName(MyClass.class.getPackage().getName(),"MyClass"),MyClass.class, node);

  marshaller.marshal(root, new File("output/Path/obj.xml"));

To build my java classes from the schema I use a xjc-task in an ant build script:

<xjc destdir="${dir.src.gen}" removeOldOutput="no" extension="true">
    <schema dir="${dir.schema}" includes="${file.schema}"/>
    <binding dir="${dir.schema}" includes="*.xjb"/>
    <produces dir="${dir.src.gen}" includes="**/*.java"/>
</xjc>

Answer 1

The XSD namespace doesn’t have to match the package structure, at least not in Java. When generating the classes using JAXB just provide the package you want to put the classes into.