Btw, I got it working with JAXB Intros. Such a neat extension.
Thanks!
-Arul
Arul Dhesiaseelan wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
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