java - JAXB, XJC -> create multiple class files

Question

I'm using JAXB and XJC for first time.

I would like to generate Java classes from XML file so I use this online helper to generate schema from XML file.

After that I just use this command line to generate Java classes :

xjc myschema.xsd

it's work but I receive only one Java file and many static classes inside it. Is this possible to generate many java files that contain only one classe per file please ?

Thank you

Answer 1

By default JAXB (JSR-222) will create static inner classes for nested complex types to prevent class name conflicts. You can use an external binding file to disable this behaviour.

binding.xml

A binding file allows you to customize how Java classes are generated from an XML schema.

<jaxb:bindings
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
    version="2.1">
    <jaxb:globalBindings localScoping="toplevel"/>
</jaxb:bindings>

XJC Call

The -b option is used with the XJC command to specify a binding file.

xjc -b binding.xml myschema.xsd

For More Information

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/07/jaxb-xjc-and-nested-classes.html