A developer tool, such as an integrated development environment (IDE), can open up possibilities for
analyzing large XML schemas.
The NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 IDE, which supports XML schemas and namespaces, affords such possibilities and is now available as an Early Access release for
FREE download. Its query results clearly display a schema's structure, contents, and the relationships among the components—all valuable data for development and maintenance tasks. So whether you develop or maintain XML schemas or whether you work with industry-standard schemas—like those from the IRS, the National Retail Federation, or the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)—you can effectively analyze your schemas with NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.
This article entitled Analyzing XML Schemas on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) explores some of the possibilities for analyzing schemas and describes the IDE's analysis results.
The NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 Early access that is part of the Java EE Tools Bundle is a
FREE download
that comes with a plethora of tooling that helps the SOA Developer. Tools
like the XML Schema (XSD) Editor, the WSDL Editor, the BPEL Visual Designer,
and all the other tools that are part of this download help the SOA
developer be extremely productive at what he is doing.
Learn to use those tools here:
Download the Java EE 5 Tools Bundle Beta from http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp for FREE, and provide us feedback on the improvements you'd like to see. It combines the new Java EE 5 SDK with NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta,
NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 Early Access, and Sun Java System
Application Server Platform Edition 9. This bundle also contains
Project Open ESB Starter Kit Beta, Java EE 5 samples, Java BluePrints,
and API docs (Javadoc).