sorry, I couldn't understand very well the scenario where your feature
can aggregate better value...
> "whether it has been modified since it was created or no"
ok, it can be too much purism, but in my humble opinion JAXB is best
useful in case of contract-first development, and to suppose a
generated class can be modified is to assume you are
half-contract-first-half-code-first :(
ok, if you are talking code-first only, perhaps it can be useful ..
but for contract-first does not make sense........