Axis2 - Date Format

Question

Scenario

The date format which is output as a response to the Web Service client by Axis2 is formatted as \"2009-08-28+01:00\". I would like to change this to show on

Answer 1

The problem is caused by using Calendar object as a source value for xsd:date field. When you get instance of Calendar it always goes with timezone (default timezone is used if not specified explicitly). To remove timezone use clear() method and restore all fields excluding timezone. Then XML mapping library (I tested with XmlBeans, but I think it's also true for other binding libraries supported by Axis) generates XML without timezone suffix.

Calendar myDate = Calendar.getInstance();   // returns GregorianCalendar
Calendar now = (Calendar)myDate.clone();    // save current timestamp
myDate.clear(); // this clears the fields, including Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET
myDate.set(     //set all fields back from the saved copy
    now.get(Calendar.YEAR),
    now.get(Calendar.MONTH),
    now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),
    now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY),
    now.get(Calendar.MINUTE),
    now.get(Calendar.SECOND)
);