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Internally, CXF uses XML Schema as it's XML type vocabulary. The front ends annotate the service model with XML schema information when it is available to them. Data bindings provide XML schema.

There are no APIs in the DataBinding interface for schema. Instead, data bindings add schema information to the service model. As of CXF 2.1, they add it twice: once as objects in the XmlSchema object model, and once as a DOM document. This is an artifact of workarounds to problems with XmlSchema, and we hope to remove it some day.

org.apache.cxf.xmlbeans.XmlBeansDataBinding and its related classes provide a relatively clean and simple example of this process.

Tooling and Code Generation

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