Instructs Jakarta XML Binding to also bind other classes when binding this class.
Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all subclasses of
a given class. This often gets in a way of Jakarta XML Binding users, as it Jakarta XML Binding
cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known
to JAXBContext
.
For example, with the following class definitions:
class Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
The user would be required to create JAXBContext
as
JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)
(Animal
will be automatically picked up since Dog
and Cat
refers to it.)
XmlSeeAlso
annotation would allow you to write:
@XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class})
class Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
This would allow you to do JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)
.
By the help of this annotation, Jakarta XML Binding implementations will be able to
correctly bind Dog
and Cat
.
- Author:
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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Required Element Summary
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Element Details
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value
Class<?>[] value
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