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

The ObjectFactory class generated by the XJC compiler is not useful to the factoryClass and factoryMethod @XmlType annotation because the factoryMethod must be a static no-arg method and the XJC generate instance methods.