How can I ignore a superclass?

Question

I\'m trying to write a web service for the java.util.logging api. So I wrote a class MyLogRecord that inherits from LogRecord. I annotated this class with JAX-B

Answer 1

You need to mark the parent class @XmlTransient. Since the parent class is in the JRE and cannot be modified by you, you need an alternate mechanism.

The EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) implementation offers a means of representing the metadata as XML that you could use:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/MOXy/EclipseLink-OXM.XML

You can specify some of the metadata using annotations, and the rest as XML. Below is what your document would look like:

<java-types> 

    <java-type name="java.util.logging.LogRecord" xml-transient="true"/>

</java-types>