Is it possible the generate shared objects using JAXB?

Question

I have 3 xsd files:

• a.xsd
• b.xsd
• shared.xsd

shared.xsd is imported to both a.xsd and b.xsd using

<xs:import schemaLocation="shared.xsd"/>

shared.xsd defines

<xs:element name="item">
<xs:complexType> ....

If I generate java code using xjc a.xsd and b.xsd is generated into different packages and in each package a separate java class is generated for item. How would it be possible to have a single shared class for item and make a and b use it?

Answer 1

You can override the package that generated files are put into. This should allow both of the shared objects to go into the same place.

xjc -p com.test a.xsd b.xsd shared.xsd

I think that is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

Either do what @Chris Dail said, or merge a.xsd and b.xsd in one schema file since JAXB looks a the namespace to create the package.