GlassFish 3.1.2 is Full of MOXy (EclipseLink JAXB)

I am very happy to announce that EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) is now a JAXB (JSR-222) provider in GlassFish 3.1.2.  I would like to thank the EclipseLink and GlassFish committers for all their hard work to make this happen.

In this post I will introduce how MOXy can be leveraged to create a JAX-WS service.  In future posts I will cover more of the extensions in greater detail.

GlassFish can be downloaded from the following link:

• http://glassfish.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

JAXB and Package Level XmlAdapters

The XmlAdapter mechanism in JAXB (JSR-222) allows an unmappable class to be converted to a mappable one.  An XmlAdapter can be registered with the @XmlJavaTypeAdapter at the field, property, type, or package level.  This post will focus on the scope of the XmlAdapter when registered at the package level.

Mapping an Arbitrary List of Objects using JAXB's @XmlAnyElement and XmlAdapter

The @XmlAnyElement annotation enables a property to handle arbitrary XML elements, and the XmlAdapter provides a way to convert an object that can not be mapped into one that can.  In this post we will combine these two mechanisms  to map a list of arbitrary objects.

This post will cover the following concepts:

1. The @XmlAnyElement annotation
2. A type level XmlAdapter
3. Marshalling/Unmarshalling root level simple data types (i.e. String and Integer)
4. Specifying a root element via JAXBElement
5. Specifying the type to be unmarshalled on the Unmarshaller

JAXB's @XmlType and propOrder

In this post I will demonstrate how to use the propOrder property on the @XmlType annotation to control the ordering of XML elements.  I will also discuss the impact of @XmlAccessorType on how propOrder is configured.

JAXB and Inheritance - EclipseLink MOXy's @XmlClassExtractor

In a previous post I covered how JAXB's XmlAdapter could be leveraged to use a node unique to the subtype as the inheritance indicator.  In this post I'll demonstrate that if that node is an XML attribute, then EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)'s @XmlClassExtractor could be leveraged to do the same thing in fewer lines of code.

JAXB and Inheritance - Using XmlAdapter

In previous posts I have covered how to map inheritance relationships in JAXB. This can be done by element name (via @XmlElementRef), by the xsi:type attribute, or in EclipseLink MOXy using another XML attribute (via @XmlDescriminatorNode/@XmlDescriminatorValue).  In this post the type indicator will be an XML attribute/element unique to that type, and we will leverage an XmlAdapter to implement this behaviour.

How Does JAXB Compare to XMLBeans?

In previous posts I compared JAXB (JSR-222) to Simple and XStream when starting from Java objects.  In this post I'll compare JAXB to XMLBeans when starting from an XML schema.   I will use XMLBeans 2.5.0 (December 2009) which is the latest release.

EclipseLink MOXy is the JAXB Provider in WebLogic Server 12c

I am very happy to announce that EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) is now the default JAXB (JSR-222) provider in WebLogic Server 12c.  I would like to thank the EclipseLink committers and the WebLogic team for all their hard work to make this happen.

In this post I will introduce how MOXy can be leveraged to create a JAX-WS service.  In future posts I will cover more of the extensions in greater detail.

WebLogic Server 12c can be downloaded from OTN at the following link:

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html

Reusing Generated JAXB Classes

In this post I will demonstrate how to leverage the -episode XJC extension to reuse classes previously generated from.an XML schema.  This is useful when an XML schema is imported by other XML schemas and you do not want the same classes generated each time.

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.