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Re: unmarshaling to extender MyClass

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 07:44:04 -0700

Use the <class implClass="..." /> customization.

Personally, I don't think this is good enough, so any feedback would be
appreciated.


Ami Tabak <ami-t_at_BARAK-ONLINE.NET> wrote:
> In the pre-official releases of JAXB it is was possible to customize the
> process of unmarshalling JAXB classes from a XML input file in the following way:
>
> When XML elements are encountered, the JAXB framework creates instances of user-defined classes instead of the JAXB-generated classes (ofcourse these user-defined classes have to be defined as
> extenders (inheritors) of the the corresponding JAXB-generated classes).
>
> The mechanism was supported by using javax.xml.bind.Dispatcher class.
>
> The problem:
>
> In the first official release this class does not exists.
> I can't find any documented way to achive the same functionality.


regards,
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