What is the ObjectFactory role during JAXB-Unmarshalling?

Question

I\'m using JAXB 2.2.2 to parse a simple XML-REST stream. This is the piece of code:

JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance( \"com.example.entities\" );
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Answer 1

You can leverage the @XmlType annotation to control how the objects are created:

@XmlType(factoryClass=ObjectFactory.class, factoryMethod="createRsp")
public class Response {
}

For More Information

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2011/06/jaxb-and-factory-methods.html