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=Default Root Element=
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At least one of your mapped classes must have a default root element defined.  This tells EclipseLink what the top-level root of your XML document will be.  Consider the <tt>Customer</tt> and <tt>Address</tt> classes shown in this example:
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[[Image:Defaultrootelement.png]]<br><br>
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These classes correspond to the XML schema shown in this example.  The schema contains a top-level element of type "<tt>customer-type</tt>", therefore our <tt>Customer</tt> class will need to have a default root element specified.
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<source lang="xml">
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<xsd:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
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  <xsd:complexType name="address-type">
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      <xsd:sequence>
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        <element name="street" type="xsd:string"/>
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        <element name="city" type="xsd:string"/>
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      </xsd:sequence>
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  </xsd:complexType>
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  <xsd:element name="customer" type="customer-type"/>
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  <xsd:complexType name="customer-type">
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      <xsd:sequence>
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        <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
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        <xsd:element name="billing-address" type="address-type"/>
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        <xsd:element name="shipping-address" type="address-type"/>
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      </xsd:sequence>
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  </xsd:complexType>
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</xsd:schema>
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</source>
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The following example shows how to annotate your Java class to specify a default root element.  All that is needed is the standard JAXB <tt>@XmlRootElement</tt> annotation.
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<source lang="java">
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@XmlRootElement
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public class Customer {
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  private String name;
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  private Address billingAddress;
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  private Address shippingAddress;
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  ...
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}
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</source>
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The example below shows how specify a default root element in EclipseLink's OXM metadata format.
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<source lang="xml">
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...
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<java-type name="Customer">
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  <xml-root-element name="customer"/>
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  <java-attributes>
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      <xml-element java-attribute="name"/>
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      <xml-element java-attribute="billingAddress" name="billing-address"/>
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      <xml-element java-attribute="shippingAddress" name="shipping-address"/>
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  </java-attributes>
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</java-type>
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...
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</source>
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<br><br>
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Foo.
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<br><br>
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When an instance of the <tt>Customer</tt> class is persisted to XML, the EclipseLink runtime performs the following:
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* Gets the default root element.  The <tt>Customer</tt> class instance corresponds to the root of the XML document. The EclipseLink runtime uses the default root element (<tt>customer</tt>) specified in either annotations or OXM to start the XML document. EclipseLink then uses the mappings on the class to marshal the object's attributes.
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<source lang="xml">
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<customer>
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  <name>...</name>
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</customer>
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</source>
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* When the EclipseLink runtime encounters an object attribute such as <tt>billingAddress</tt>, it checks the mapping associated with it to determine with what element (<tt>billing-address</tt>) to continue.
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<source lang="xml">
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<customer>
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  <name>...</name>
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  <billing-address/>
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</customer>
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</source>
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* The EclipseLink runtime checks the mapping's reference descriptor (<tt>Address</tt>) to determine what attributes to persist.
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<source lang="xml">
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<customer>
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  <name>...</name>
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  <billing-address>
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      <street>...</street>
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      <city>...</city>
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  </billing-address>
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</customer>
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</source>
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|version=2.2.0
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}}
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Latest revision as of 09:49, 8 November 2012

Please see http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/2.4/moxy/type_level001.htm

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