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7034918: Integrate JAX-WS 2.2.4-b01 in to JDK 7
author | andrew |
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date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:59:37 +0100 |
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/* * Copyright (c) 2006, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package javax.xml.bind.annotation; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext; import java.lang.annotation.ElementType; import java.lang.annotation.Retention; import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME; import java.lang.annotation.Target; /** * Instructs JAXB to also bind other classes when binding this class. * * <p> * Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of * a given class. This often gets in a way of JAXB users, as it JAXB * cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known * to {@link JAXBContext}. * * <p> * For example, with the following class definitions: * * <pre> * class Animal {} * class Dog extends Animal {} * class Cat extends Animal {} * </pre> * * <p> * The user would be required to create {@link JAXBContext} as * <tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)</tt> * (<tt>Animal</tt> will be automatically picked up since <tt>Dog</tt> * and <tt>Cat</tt> refers to it.) * * <p> * {@link XmlSeeAlso} annotation would allow you to write: * <pre> * @XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class}) * class Animal {} * class Dog extends Animal {} * class Cat extends Animal {} * </pre> * * <p> * This would allow you to do <tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)</tt>. * By the help of this annotation, JAXB implementations will be able to * correctly bind <tt>Dog</tt> and <tt>Cat</tt>. * * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi * @since JAXB2.1 */ @Target({ElementType.TYPE}) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface XmlSeeAlso { Class[] value(); }