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Re: Several serialization strategies using JAXB

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:20:33 -0700

Levi Purvis wrote:
> This is a follow-up to the forum discussion here:
>
> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18615

Cool.

> So it looks like the general idea is to create an AnnotationReader
> implementation that can provide all of the metadata from somewhere
> other than the default class file?

Yes.

> Where would I "plug in" an alternate implementation? It looks like
> JAXBContextImpl is hard-wired to new
> RuntimeInlineAnnotationReader(...).

Yes. We need to fix that, but I can do that very easily. Most likely
we'll take an instance of AnnotationReader through
JAXBContext.newInstance()'s Map property.

I'll try to get this done in this afternoon and let you know.

-- 
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com