Thanks Benjamin.
I will try this approach.
-Arul
Reif, Benjamin wrote:
>
> You can implement your own
> com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.annotation.RuntimeAnnotationReader (which is
> really all JAXB introductions does to read the xml file instead of the
> annotations in the Class file). Your custom annotation reader can then
> do the necessary logic to return the correct annotation. Then you
> should be able to do something like this to hook it into JAXB:
>
> Map properties = new HashMap();
>
> properties.put(JAXBRIContext.ANNOTATION_READER, new
> MyCustomRuntimeAnnotationReader());
>
> JAXBContext.getInstance(new Class[]{}, properties);
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Wolfgang Laun [mailto:wolfgang.laun_at_gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:47 PM
> *To:* users_at_jaxb.dev.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: injecting JAXB annotations at runtime
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Arul Dhesiaseelan <arul_at_fluxcorp.com
> <mailto:arul_at_fluxcorp.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to annotate a class with @XmlRootElement at runtime.
>
>
>
> Although I may not be able to help you with this caper I'd still like
> to know why this has to be at runtime. There might be an altogether
> different approach, or can you exclude that?
>
>
>
> AFAIK, I can't use the JAXB introductions because it needs an
> external static configuration file.
>
> I can think of using javaassist to manipulate the class file at
> runtime. But, I wanted to check here if there is a better
> alternative to do this with any other tools or does JAXB RI
> provides any hooks to do this.
>
> -Arul
>