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Maven Settings for the Hibernate JSR 303 Bean Validator

The Guy’s at Spring, when talking about their MVC examples, always bang on about JSR 303 - Bean Validation, and why not, it’s an integral part of their validation strategy replacing the older inheritance based validation of deprecated classes such as SimpleFormController. The reference implementation for JSR 303 has been written by Hibernate and is available from the JBoss repository. To get hold of the validation JAR files you’ll need to either add the following to your settings.xml:

An Easy Way to Build a Schema Using XMLBeans inst2xsd

I know that I’ve mentioned this tool before, but I was too brief. This blog rectifies that by demonstrating how easy it is to build your self a schema using a little sample XML and inst2xsd, which is free.

inst2xsd and Other Useful Tools

No matter how much you think you know about a tool, pattern or subject, there’s always something useful that pops up from time to time. I’ve been using XmlBeans for a number of years and only found out about inst2xsd the other day and all this time I’ve been writing XML schemata by hand.

This little blog is just a quick reminder that Xmlbeans provides useful tools as well as a useful API by demonstrating how to use inst2xsd.

The simplest way of using inst2xsd is to type:

inst2xsd /filename.xsd

This will produce a schema file called schema0.xsd whose contents won't be perfect, which means that you'll need to fiddle around with it tailoring it to meet your exact needs.

For more information on inst2xsd see inst2xsd on the xmlbeans tools page.