JAXB and Namespace Prefixes

In a previous post I covered how to use namespace qualification with JAXB.  In this post I will cover how to control the prefixes that are used.  This is not covered in the JAXB (JSR-222) specification but I will demonstrate the extensions available in both the reference and EclipseLink MOXy implementations for handling this use case.

JAXB & Namespaces

The majority of XML documents are namespace qualified, yet most XML binding examples do not demonstrate namespaces (sometimes because the XML binding solution does not support them). In this post I'll demonstrate how easy namespace handling is using JAXB.