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Bug 348098

Summary:	[Validation] @XmlElement validation enhancements
Product:	[WebTools] Dali JPA Tools	Reporter:	Paul Fullbright <paul.fullbright>
Component:	JAXB	Assignee:	Paul Fullbright <paul.fullbright>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	neil.hauge
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	3.1 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Paul Fullbright

2011-06-02 12:15:03 EDT

from JAXB 2.2 spec (8.9.1.2):

If the property or field type is a parametric collection type, then @XmlElement.type() must be DEFAULT.class or the collection item type (since the type of the collection is already known).

Comment 1 Paul Fullbright

2011-08-16 16:56:04 EDT

This is not actually correct.

The @XmlElement.type() must actually *agree* with (be a subtype of) the attribute base type.

This may actually be trying to say that if @XmlElement.type() is not specified, then it is assumed to be the attribute's base type, which is already taken into consideration in our defaults calculation.

The above validation test (agreement) has now been committed to head.