Jaxb project in eclipse indigo

Question

When I create a jaxb project in eclipse indigo, it tells me "The currently selected JAXB library provider is invalid" which is eclipselink2.3.0-Indigo I tried the javanet download jars with no success. i can though try the examples in the demo described here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/MOXy/GettingStarted with the exception of the part on MOXy customization. No error when i run, it just does not seem to be doing anything.

What am i missing. Thanks in advance. Kamal

Answer 1

Background Info

The Eclipse Indigo release offers some new JAXB tooling from the Dali project (which is part of Web Tools Platform). You are now able to create a JAXB Project.

Configuration

A JAXB project can be configured to use the reference or EclipseLink MOXy implementation of JAXB. This can be done via:

1. Right click your JAXB Project
2. Select Properties
3. Select Project Facets
4. Check the JAXB facet (If you are using Java SE 6 set the JAXB version to 2.1, if you are using Java SE 7 then set the JAXB version to 2.2).
5. Click the "Further configuration required" or "Further configuration available" links.

Using the JAXB RI

• Choose Generic JAXB as your platform
• Choose JRE as your JAXB Implementation Type

Using EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)

• Choose EclipseLink JAXB as your platform
• Choose User Library as your JAXB Implementation
• Click the Manage Libraries... icon

• Add a new User Library for EclipseLink (the binary can be obtained from http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/).