JAXB and formating a date

Question

Hi,
i have a problem:
The java-classes generated by JAXB from the following code-snipplet
    <xs:attribute name="edate" use="required">
      <xs:simpleType>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:date"/>
      </xs:simpleType>
    </xs:attribute>produce during marshalling a string like "2000-01-22+01:00".
How can I suppress the +01:00 (which I assume to be the offset
from my local timezone to GMT)? Adding a pattern restriction doesn't work.
Is it possible to modify the DateFormat used by JAXBs internal classes to
achieve my goal?
Thanks

Answer 1

You can define your own conversion for the date inside your XML-Java binding Schema (XJS):
<xml-java-binding-schema>
<element name="date"
         type="value"
         convert="ConvertDate"/>
<conversion name="ConvertDate"
            type="java.util.Date"
            parse="ConvertDate.parse"
            print="ConvertDate.format"/>
</xml-java-binding-schema>
ConvertDate contains two methods that help the marshalling and
unmarshalling process convert to and from java.util.Date.
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class ConvertDate {
   static final SimpleDateFormat _format =
      new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd");
   public static Date parse(String date)
      throws ParseException {
      synchronized(_format) {
         return _format.parse(date);
   public static String format(Date date) {
      synchronized(_format) {
         return _format.format(date);
}