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Creating an XML Project (ELUG)
This section describes the various components that you must configure in order to create an XML project.
For information on how to create more than one type of EclipseLink projects, see Creating a Project.
Introduction to XML Project Creation
You can create a project using the Workbench or Java code.
We recommend using the Workbench to create projects and generate deployment XML or Java source versions of the project for use at run time. For more information on how to create a project using Workbench, see How to Create a Project Using the Workbench. For information on how to create a project using Java, see How to Create a Project Using Java.
You can use EclipseLink to create an XML project, if you have an XML schema (XSD) document, but no object model yet (see Creating an XML Project from an XML Schema). If you have both XSD and object model classes, you can create an XML project using the procedure described in How to Create a Project Using the Workbench
For more information, see Introduction to XML Projects.
Creating an XML Project from an XML Schema
EclipseLink 1.x supports JAXB 2.0 and uses the JAXB 2.0 schema compiler. You can use this JAXB compiler to generate POJO (Plain Old Java Objects) annotated with JAXB 2.0 mapping metadata. You can define and edit this JAXB metadata by embedding these annotations in your source code -- not the Eclipse Workbench.
To use the Eclipse Workbench to define XPath based mappings:
- Create an XML project.
- Import your schema and classes into the project.
- Define the mappings between your classes and schema.