Schema-to-Java

Custom JAXB binding declarations allow you to customize your generated JAXB classes beyond the XML-specific constraints in an XML schema to include Java-specific refinements, such as class and package name mappings.

JAXB provides two ways to customize an XML schema:

• As inline annotations in a source XML schema

• As declarations in an external binding customization file that is passed to the JAXB binding compiler

Code examples that show how to customize JAXB bindings are provided later in this chapter.