From: Noel Rappin <nrappin_at_sockeye.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:17:33 -0500

Okay, now I'm trying to do this... Again, a little simplified for the
example.

<xsd:element name="parent">
     <xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:sequence>
             <xsd:element ref="child" minOccurs="1"
                          maxOccurs="unbounded">
                  <xsd:annotation><xsd:appinfo>
                      <jaxb:property collectionType ="CustomChildList"/>
                  </xsd:appinfo></xsd:annotation>
             </xsd:element>
         </xsd:sequence>
     </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

All works well, except that JAXB is checking for the existence of
CustomChildList when generating code. Therefore, when I try to rebuild
from a clean slate, and generate the bean code before compiling. I get
an exception that CustomChildList doesn't exist (becuase nothing has
been compiled yet). (It's a NoClassDefFoundError in
com.sun.tools.xjc.reader.xmlschema.bindinfo.parser -- line 43).

This sets up a circular dependency -- I can't generate the code because
the class hasn't been compiled, and I can't compile the class because it
depends on the bean code being generated.

Clearly, I'm missing something. How do I get around this?

Thanks,

Noel