Comment 1 Paul Fullbright 2011-06-06 14:33:41 EDT

In particular, it is important to note that an XmlAdapter transforms the type of the java attribute from its declared type to a type determined by the adapter implementation.  Much validation of other annotations depends on this attribute type being interpreted correctly.

Comment 2 Paul Fullbright 2011-10-13 11:49:38 EDT

Added support for adapting attributes whether the annotation is on:
- the attribute itself
- the class to be adapted
- the package containing the attribute
- the package containing the class to be adapted

Validation proved trickier.  We added the adapted-*to* type to the JAXB context, and that applies default mapping information, so any validation of *that* type will be performed.  But pretty much any type will automatically be mapped, so beyond that, there's not much to be done.

Support added for 3.1 M3