Thank you.
I'd imagine a little glue code that uses this to figure out classes with
a JAXB annotation and then return it as Class[] would be a nice JAXB
commons project.
From there, people can easily create JAXBContext.
Would you be interested in writing on, Dimitris? :-)
Dimitris Andreou wrote:
> Hi Koshuke,
> I'm at SpringOne conference @ Belgium. I see that spring (2.5) has a new
> utility that scans classes out of the classpath (searching for some
> annotated classes).
> Although I was not able to find the code (yet), it sounds like that
> could be modified/used to alleviate the need for XmlSeeAlso. Well, there
> are caveats for you
> (or, your replacement anyway! :)) to consider though. It supports either
> directories or jar files, and parses .class files with ASM to avoid
> actually loading them.
> And it uses some package-prefix filtering, or else it would be hugely slow.
> Even if the need of an annotation won't be completely eliminated (you
> would still need a package prefix to look for...), maybe another
> annotation, or XmlSeeAlso itself,
> could handle package declarations, and would look in them for subtypes.
>
> Anyway, just dropped a note in case you would find this interesting.
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi