Where to include jaxb.properties file?

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sdoca picture sdoca · Dec 2, 2010 · Viewed 24.4k times · Source

I have REST (Jersey) webservice that makes use of some data objects that are marshalled/unmarshalled to/from XML. The data objects are in a separate project/jar that the webservice war depends on.

I'm using MOXy as my JAXB implementation since I'm deploying to Glassfish and that's already included. I know I need a jaxb.properties file to set the JAXB implementation to MOXy with this entry:

javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory

The question is, should the jaxb.properties file be included in the data object jar or in the webservice war or both?

Answer

GaspardP picture GaspardP · Oct 13, 2015

If you don't want or can not use the jaxb.properties (you have a lot of package, the model is in a external jar, you want only java and no configuration files...), you can directly specify the JaxbContextFactory :

Do not create the context using : 

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(new Class[]{Person.class, ObjectFactory.class}, properties);

But instead, specify the factory to use : 

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContextFactory.createContext(new Class[]{Person.class, ObjectFactory.class}, properties);

where the factory is :

import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory;

It is exactly the same, but it is specified explicitly in the java code instead of implicitly in a configuration file.

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