Description Blaise Doughan 2010-10-14 14:07:37 EDT

Created attachment 180899 [details]
Example code demonstrating the problem

With the attached example the following exception is thrown:

Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: 
Exception Description: Invalid XmlElementRef on property contactInfo on class blog.choice.Customer. Referenced Element not declared
 - with linked exception:
[Exception [EclipseLink-50006] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.1.0.v20100614-r7608): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.JAXBException
Exception Description: Invalid XmlElementRef on property contactInfo on class blog.choice.Customer. Referenced Element not declared]
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:247)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:207)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:94)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
	at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:201)
	at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:330)
	at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:618)
	at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:565)
	at blog.choice.Demo.main(Demo.java:17)
Caused by: Exception [EclipseLink-50006] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.1.0.v20100614-r7608): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.JAXBException
Exception Description: Invalid XmlElementRef on property contactInfo on class blog.choice.Customer. Referenced Element not declared
	at org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.JAXBException.invalidElementRef(JAXBException.java:133)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.processReferenceProperty(AnnotationsProcessor.java:1601)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.finalizeProperties(AnnotationsProcessor.java:602)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.processClassesAndProperties(AnnotationsProcessor.java:177)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.Generator.<init>(Generator.java:143)
	at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:244)
	... 12 more


Instead the following XML document should be produced:

<customer>
    <name>Jane Doe</name>
    <address>
        <city>Any Town</city>
        <street>1 A Street</street>
    </address>
</customer>