XmlSeeAlso enhancements

[Tomas-Kraus]

I have three enhancement suggestions for @XmlSeeAlso.

1. Allow @XmlSeeAlso to be applied to a package via package-info.java. This will help greatly in decoupling base classes from their subclasses.

2. Check for @XmlSeeAlso on XmlAdapter implementation classes that have been specified via @XmlJavaTypeAdapter. This will also help greatly in decoupling base classes from their subclasses.

3. Allow for specifying an array of package name strings via @XmlSeeAlso. This would work in a similar way as creating a JAXBContext with a list of package names in that the package(s) would be scanned for classes. This one would be a tremendous help in adding runtime flexibility to JAXB when used with JAXWS – extension subclasses could be loaded at runtime that are not available at compile time.

public @interface XmlSeeAlso { Class[] value(); String[] packages(); }

Environment

Operating System: All Platform: All

Affected Versions

[2.2]

[Tomas-Kraus]

• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/jaxb-v2/issues/437
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @glassfishrobot

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented Reported by [email protected]

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented Was assigned to snajper

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAXB-437