Description Rick Barkhouse 2010-11-12 15:41:02 EST

To support ObjectFactory-related features (e.g. substitution groups) in Dynamic JAXB, type information will have to be added to xml-element-decl, so that a full method signature for each create() method can be generated in memory.

Currently XmlElementDecls are defined in OXM as follows:

<xml-element-decl namespace="myNamespace" name="personne"  java-method="createPersonne" substitutionHeadNamespace="myNamespace" substitutionHeadName="person"/>

A typical ObjectFactory method for this declaration would look like:

@XmlElementDecl(namespace = "myNamespace", name = "personne", substitutionHeadNamespace = "myNamespace", substitutionHeadName = "person")
public JAXBElement<Person> createPersonne(Person value) {
    return new JAXBElement<Person>(_Personne_QNAME, Person.class, null, value);
}

However for Dynamic JAXB, a representation of ObjectFactory is created (implements JavaClass) in memory, and in order to have the proper return type (JAXBElement<Person>), we would need to have that "Person" information available in the xml-element-decl element.