XML serialization of Java types

Simple and primitive Java™ types are serialized to XML to generate Web Service Description Language (WSDL) or Web Application Description Language (WADL) format.

Simple Java types are the finest-grain types from which complex Java types can be expressed. The following table shows how the first-level elements of the primitive Java types are mapped to XML types for serialization into WSDL or WADL format. You retrieve rulesets in WSDL format to present them as hosted transparent decision services. You retrieve rulesets in WADL format to execute them by using Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs.

Restriction: If you use Java primitive types as input values in your execution requests, make sure that each value falls within its corresponding data type range. Otherwise, you might get unexpected output.

Table 1. XML serialization of Java simple types and primitive types
Java types	XML serialization	JAXB types for deserialization
boolean java.lang.Boolean	xsd:boolean	java.lang.Boolean
byte	xsd:int	java.lang.Integer
char java.lang.Character	xsd:int	java.lang.Character
java.util.Date	xsd:dateTime	java.util.Date
java.math.BigDecimal	xsd:decimal	java.math.BigDecimal
double java.lang.Double	xsd:double	java.lang.Double
float java.lang.Float	xsd:float	java.lang.Float
int java.lang.Integer	xsd:int	java.lang.Integer
java.math.BigInteger	xsd:integer	java.math.BigInteger
long java.lang.Long	xsd:long	java.lang.Long
short java.lang.Short	xsd:short	java.lang.Short
java.lang.String	xsd:string	java.lang.String