David Blevins wrote:
> I assume then that the answer to "how far off" is 1-2 years, would
> that be a fair assumption?
I don't think it takes that long. But it's not certainly in the order of
weeks.
> Is it possible to get this feature as a vendor extension before then
> (i.e. a feature specific to the RI)? Maybe use some sort of RI
> specific annotation.
The problem is that the JAXB runtime has no notion of "vendor extension"
(unlike schema compilation, where the spec does define such a notion),
so such change would make the RI incompatible, which we can't do.
OTOH, we'd like to do this kind of experiments to gather feedback, so
it's in our interest to be able to do things like this without waiting
for the new spec.
I think I need to come up with something creative...
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com