How do we maintan XML schemas in an enterpise application?

[raminaa niilian]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
imagine that we have several software system which need to interact with eachother in order to complete a task.

All modules use xml for interaction and mostly are developed using jsx-ws.
In such application we will have several xml schemas which define structure of many xml, soap,.. messages.

what I can not understand is the way that we store this schemas,
- should we copy each schema into classpath of every application?

What are best practice for such requirement?

Thank you.