Java POJOs from cXML DTD

[Daniel_Brenner85]

Hi everyone,

following "cXML Solutions Guide" (https://help.sap.com/docs/business-network-for-supply-chain/cxml-solutions/cxml-solutions-guide?loca...) I want my application to exchange Purchase Orders with Ariba. My simple approach would be as following:

1. download latest cXML DTD(s) from cxml.org
2. generate source code for POJOs from DTD(s)
3. in my application use Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/Jackson) to generate XML from Java objects
4. receive response and - again - use Jackson to fill Java objects with information from XML

My questions:

- I used IntelliJ Ultimate to convert DTD to XSD. And I used jaxb2-maven-plugin from MojoHaus (former CodeHaus) to generated Java source code. Turns out that there are a lot of issues in the XSD. Am I using the right tools?

- are there somewhere cXML XSDs without issues?

- is the source code already available for this? (assuming that SAP VDM cannot be used)

- am I overthinking the whole thing and there is another easier, simpler way?

Thanks in advance,

- Daniel

[martinseverinsteffensen]

Did you ever figure this out? I too am experiencing issues using the DTDs when attempting to generate bindings with the same Maven plugin.