In JBDS 3.0, tooling is needed to convert xml to schema and schema to JAXB classes. I have used Trang(http://www.thaiopensource.com/download/) to handle the schema creation, but there are other tools as well and this is an implementation detail. Developers should not need to run a command line tools to get this done and then copy the schema back to JBDS. For the JAXB classes creation, EAP 5 ships with the necessary binaries for this , that is the JAXB-XJC.jar. Again, a command line java -jar jaxb-xjc.jar <schema file> should not be needed. These tasks are very common for web service developers.