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Re: determining the type mappings implied by a JAXBContext

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:46:09 -0700

Mark Hansen wrote:
> I'm reviewing the JAXB 2.0 API and specification. I don't see any
> interface for querying a context to determine the type mappings?

As you noticed the JAXBIntrospector API is fairly limited in scope.
There are a lot of things it doesn't give you.

I think the full JAXB-reflection API goes beyond the scope of the JAXB
API. There's no denying that such a feature would be useful for some
applications, but it's not clear if it needs to be standard.

If you are interested in doing JAXB-aware reflection, take a look at
http://jaxb2-reflection.dev.java.net/

You can get all sorts of information, including the type name <-> class
mapping.



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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com