XMLBeans does not support our schemas. I tried to follow up with them on the XMLBeans mailing list, but it was dropped. There's a similar story with Castor, though at least in that case I was asked to expect a delay. Haven't tried JAXB, though I haven't heard great things about it either. Aaron On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Koller, Shmuel wrote: > Does this community use common tools for core processes ? > > I would imagine many Component developers process XML-schema based inputs. > That desires a tool of choice to bridge beween XML types and Java > types/abstractions. > > FYI -latest submission to Apache - XMLbeans which was used in developing BEA > products. > > It does not build a objects tree, unless Object is required. So its > efficient. > It does maintain the original info set for Cursor based traversal. > It does use Schema as metadata to generate Java classes mapped from XML > types, full schema support. > So Cursor and XML types as Java - are two facades for efficient and Java > oriented XML instance traversal. > > The need for XML-Java binding is everywhere, inckuding support for JAXB, > suggest one common tool used by BEA in own products. > > Shmuel >