Mapping XML Data Types to Java Data Types

In this guide, the UML class and object diagrams use the primitive data type names such as string and integer, without the XML Schema definition namespace prefix (xsd:). The vSphere API Reference contains the complete data type name, such as xsd:string. The data types map to the primitive data types of the programming language used for the client application.

The following table lists some of the more common XML primitive data type mappings.

XML Schema	Java
xsd:base64binary	byte[]
xsd:boolean	boolean
xsd:byte	byte
xsd:dateTime	java.util.Calendar
xsd:decimal	java.math.BigDecimal
xsd:double	double
xsd:float	float
xsd:int	int
xsd:string	java.lang.String