Generate XSD schemas from an existing database or JPA entities

Question

I have been using hyperjaxb tool to generate JPA entities and database scripts from XSD schemas. Now I want basically the inverse operation. How can I generate XSD schemas based on JPA anotated entities or database? I am using Maven, so any maven solution would be preferable.

Answer 1

If you're using IntelliJ IDEA, see the following link:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/generate-xml-schema-from-java-using-jaxb-dialog.html

Answer 2

This maven plugin ( jaxb2-maven-plugin ) might be useful for you. This post has more information about its usage and the given example uses POJO's to do the transformation

Generate XSD from Java class