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The EclipseLink MOXy (JAXB) User's Guide

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Complete Table of Contents:

MOXy Introduction

• Overview
  • MOXy Overiew
  • JAXB Overview
  • Metadata
  • Annotations
  • Static vs. Dynamic MOXy

Basic

• Runtime
  • Specifying the EclipseLink Runtime
  • Bootstrapping
    • From a Single Project
    • From Multiple Projects
    • Generating Schema
  • Dynamic JAXB Bootstrapping
    • Specifying the EclipseLink Runtime
    • From an XML Schema
    • From a Single Project
      • From OXM using DynamicEntities
      • From sessions.xml using DynamicEntities
    • From Multiple Projects
      • From OXM using DynamicEntities
      • From sessions.xml using DynamicEntities
  • Querying Objects by XPath
  • Converting XML to Objects (Unmarshalling)
    • Sources (DOM, SAX, StAX, Streams)
    • Validating Against an XML Schema
    • Events
    • Handling Unmapped Content
  • Convert Objects to XML (Marshalling)
    • Targets (DOM, SAX, StAX, Streams)
    • Properties (Formatting & Encoding)
    • Events
  • Binding to an Existing Document
• Type Level
  • Mapping to a Type or Element
    • Default Root Element
  • Setting Up Namespace Information
  • Creating Objects (Constructors & Factories)
  • Handling Inheritance
• Simple Values
  • Mapping Simple Values
  • Collections
    • XMLDirectCollectionMapping
  • Enums
  • Special Schema Types
    • Date and Time Types
    • Binary Types
    • Leveraging xsi:type
    • Unions
• Relationships
  • Privately Owned
    • One-to-One – XMLCompositeObjectMapping
    • One-to-Many – XMLCompositeCollectionMapping
  • Shared Reference
    • Keys and Foreign Keys
      • Single Key
      • Composite Key
      • Embedded Key Class
    • Many-to-One – XMLObjectReferenceMapping
    • Many-to-Many – XMLCollectionReferenceMapping
  • Collections and Maps
  • Bidirectional Relationships
    • XMLInverseMapping
• Advanced XML Schema Concepts
  • Handling Null Values
  • Substitution Groups and Choices
    • XMLChoiceObjectMapping
    • XMLChoiceCollectionMapping
  • Wildcard Content
    • XMLAnyAttributeMapping
    • XMLAnyObjectMapping
    • XMLAnyCollectionMapping
• Mapping the Unmappable
  • Converters
  • Transformation Mapping
  • XMLFragmentMapping
  • XMLFragmentCollectionMapping
• Customizing Schemas
• Generating Java Classes from an XML Schema
• Mapping JPA Entities to XML
  • Properties
  • Bidirectional Relationships
  • Keys and Foreign Keys
• Web Services
  • Attachments
    • XMLBinaryDataMapping
    • XMLBinaryDataCollectionMapping
• Using Eclipselink with Spring