Customized Binding

When generateElementProperty is false, the binding is changed as follows:

// set JAXB customization generateElementProperty="false"
public class Person {
    String getName() {...}
    public void setName(String value) {...}
}

The above binding is more natural to Java developer than JAXBElement<String>. However, it does not roundtrip the value of name.

JAXB 2.0 allows generateElementProperty to be set:

• Globally in <jaxb:globalBindings>

• Locally in <jaxb:property> customization

When processing a WCF service WSDL, it is recommended that the generateElementProperty customization be set in <jaxb:globalBindings>:

<jaxb:bindings version="2.0"
               xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
               xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <jaxb:bindings schemaLocation="schema-importedby-wcfsvcwsdl"
                   node="/xs:schema">
        <jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false"/>
    </jaxb:bindings>
    ...
	

The generateElementProperty attribute was introduced in JAXB 2.1.