how replace XmlGregorianCalendar by Date?

Question

I have to expose an ejb service layer via jax-ws .

I have generated the web service using jax-ws and wsimport but I'm stopped by a strange things ; Date are being mapped to XmlGregorianCalendar . Is it possible to use classic java Date instead ? Can you show me the right way to proceed ?

Thanks . Edit: this the binding file i used : thanks , I modified slightly your xml and attached it with netbeans to the client's webservice and it worked . This the binding I used :

<jaxws:bindings  node="wsdl:definitions/wsdl:types/xsd:schema"                  xmlns:jaxws="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxws"                                  xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"                                  xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"                                  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" wsdlLocation="../wsdl/localhost_8080/web_test/Testor.wsdl" >    <jaxb:globalBindings>           <jaxb:javaType   name="java.util.Date"         xmlType="xsd:dateTime"         parseMethod="lol.XsdDateTimeConverter.unmarshal"         printMethod="lol.XsdDateTimeConverter.marshalDateTime"                   /><jaxb:javaType          name="java.util.Date"         xmlType="xsd:date"         parseMethod="lol.XsdDateTimeConverter.unmarshal"         printMethod="lol.XsdDateTimeConverter.marshalDate"         />       </jaxb:globalBindings>   </jaxws:bindings> 

Answer 1

Not tested, but should work. First create such class:

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;  public class XsdDateTimeConverter {      public static Date unmarshal(String dateTime) {         return DatatypeConverter.parseDate(dateTime).getTime();     }      public static String marshalDate(Date date) {         final GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();         calendar.setTime(date);         return DatatypeConverter.printDate(calendar);     }      public static String marshalDateTime(Date dateTime) {         final GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();         calendar.setTime(dateTime);         return DatatypeConverter.printDateTime(calendar);     }  } 

Then add this to custom xjb file:

<javaType         name="java.util.Date"         xmlType="xs:dateTime"         parseMethod="XsdDateTimeConverter.unmarshal"         printMethod="XsdDateTimeConverter.marshalDateTime"         /> <javaType         name="java.util.Date"         xmlType="xs:date"         parseMethod="XsdDateTimeConverter.unmarshal"         printMethod="XsdDateTimeConverter.marshalDate"         /> </globalBindings> 

Not tested, but should work. Based on my answer here: JAX-WS and Joda-Time?

Answer 2

Thanks Tomasz. The above solution works.
But wsimport also adds its set of Adapters like Adapter1.java and Adapter2.java with its package org.w3._2001.xmlschema, which really doesnot match my own package structure.

I found a way to change this package name using another jaxb binding. Actually, I searched for this a lot and could not find this easily, so I am adding it here for anyone looking for the same.

Add the following binding in the wsimport using '-b binding.xml'. Note that wsimport can work with multiple binding files.

binding.xml content below:

<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"   targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"   xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"   jaxb:version="2.0">   <annotation><appinfo>     <jaxb:schemaBindings>       <jaxb:package name="com.abc.xyz.utils"/>     </jaxb:schemaBindings>   </appinfo></annotation> </schema>