I want to convert the database definition of an existing SQL database into an XML schema, so I can use the schema with some model-driven development tools to create a new distributed application ...

I blogged previously on the ease of use of GroovySql , which is Groovy 's easy-to-use JDBC -based data access approach.

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.) ...

My first thought was to use the XML files to create schemas that I could import and use as my classes. These would then be extended to be able to write to SQL as well.

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.