Package javax.xml.bind.annotation
Annotation Type XmlSeeAlso
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@Target(TYPE) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface XmlSeeAlso
Instructs JAXB to also bind other classes when binding this class.Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of a given class. This often gets in a way of JAXB users, as it JAXB cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known to
JAXBContext
.For example, with the following class definitions:
class Animal {} class Dog extends Animal {} class Cat extends Animal {}
The user would be required to create
JAXBContext
as JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class) (Animal will be automatically picked up since Dog and Cat refers to it.)XmlSeeAlso
annotation would allow you to write:@XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class}) class Animal {} class Dog extends Animal {} class Cat extends Animal {}
This would allow you to do JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class). By the help of this annotation, JAXB implementations will be able to correctly bind Dog and Cat.
- Since:
- JAXB2.1
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Required Element Summary
Required Elements Modifier and Type Required Element Description java.lang.Class[]
value
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