jdk8-mips64-public/jaxws: src/share/jaxws_classes/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSeeAlso.java@0989ad8c0860

8010393: Update JAX-WS RI to 2.2.9-b12941
Reviewed-by: alanb, erikj
Contributed-by: miroslav.kos@oracle.com, martin.grebac@oracle.com

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    26 package javax.xml.bind.annotation;

    28 import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;

    29 import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;

    30 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

    31 import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

    32 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

    34 /**

    35  * Instructs JAXB to also bind other classes when binding this class.

    36  *

    37  * <p>

    38  * Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of

    39  * a given class. This often gets in a way of JAXB users, as it JAXB

    40  * cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known

    41  * to {@link JAXBContext}.

    42  *

    43  * <p>

    44  * For example, with the following class definitions:

    45  *

    46  * <pre>

    47  * class Animal {}

    48  * class Dog extends Animal {}

    49  * class Cat extends Animal {}

    50  * </pre>

    51  *

    52  * <p>

    53  * The user would be required to create {@link JAXBContext} as

    54  * <tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)</tt>

    55  * (<tt>Animal</tt> will be automatically picked up since <tt>Dog</tt>

    56  * and <tt>Cat</tt> refers to it.)

    57  *

    58  * <p>

    59  * {@link XmlSeeAlso} annotation would allow you to write:

    60  * <pre>

    61  * &#64;XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class})

    62  * class Animal {}

    63  * class Dog extends Animal {}

    64  * class Cat extends Animal {}

    65  * </pre>

    66  *

    67  * <p>

    68  * This would allow you to do <tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)</tt>.

    69  * By the help of this annotation, JAXB implementations will be able to

    70  * correctly bind <tt>Dog</tt> and <tt>Cat</tt>.

    71  *

    72  * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi

    73  * @since JAXB2.1

    74  */

    75 @Target({ElementType.TYPE})

    76 @Retention(RUNTIME)

    77 public @interface XmlSeeAlso {

    78     Class[] value();

    79 }

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