JAXB Avoid saving default values

Question

Is there any way to make JAXB not save fields which values are the default values specified in the @Element annotations, and then make set the value to it when loading eleme

Answer 1

For a programmatic solution, there's also good old Apache commons XmlSchema and you can check against the default value with XmlSchemaElement.getDefaultValue()

So with something like

XmlSchemaElement elem = schema.getElementByName(ELEMENT_QNAME);
String defval = elem.getDefaultValue();

you should be able to do what you need. Haven't tried it out in the end, because I needed a more direct solution, but I hope that helps.