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Static and Dynamic Entities
Using Static MOXy
Using Dynamic MOXy
With EclipseLink Dynamic MOXy, you can bootstrap a JAXBContext from a variety of metadata sources and use existing JAXB APIs to marshal and unmarshal data… without having compiled Java class files on the classpath. This allows you to alter the metadata source as needed, without having to update and recompile the previously-generated Java source code.
You should consider using [#Dynamic Entities|Dynamic MOXy] when:
- You want EclipseLink to generate classes from an XML schema (XSD).
- You do not want to deal with concrete Java domain classes.
Dynamic Entities
Instead of using actual Java classes (such as Customer.class or Address.class), dynamic MOXy uses a simple get(propertyName)/set(propertyName, propertyValue) API to manipulate data. EclipseLink generates (in memory) a DynamicType associated with each DynamicEntity
Example
DynamicEntity customer = (DynamicEntity) dynamicJAXBContext.createUnmarshaller().unmarshal(instanceDoc); String lastName = customer.get("lastName"); List orders = customer.get("orders"); ... DynamicEntity address = dContext.newDynamicEntity("mynamespace.Address"); address.set("street", "1001 Fleet St."); customer.set("lastName", lastName + "Jr."); customer.set("address", address);
For more information, see Appendix D: Binding XML Names to Java Identifiers in the JPA Specification.
Creating Dynamic Entities
To create and use Dynamic MOXy entities, create a JAXBContext by using the DynamicJAXBContextFactory class. You can create a DynamicJAXBContext can be created from an XML Schema file (XSD), EclipseLink OXM metadata file, or from an EclipseLink Project specified in the EclipseLink sessions.xml file.
Note: DynamicJAXBContexts cannot be instantiated directly, they must be created through the factory API.
- Bootstrapping from XML schema (XSD)
- Bootstrapping from EclipseLink OXM metadata
- Bootstrapping from EclipseLink project (sessions.xml)
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