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Annotation Type XmlSeeAlso</H2>
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<DT><PRE><FONT SIZE="-1">@Target(value=TYPE)
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
</FONT>public @interface <B>XmlSeeAlso</B></DL>
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<P>
Instructs JAXB to also bind other classes when binding this class.
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Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of
a given class. This often gets in a way of JAXB users, as it JAXB
cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known
to <A HREF="../../../../javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext.html" title="class in javax.xml.bind"><CODE>JAXBContext</CODE></A>.
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For example, with the following class definitions:
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class Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
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The user would be required to create <A HREF="../../../../javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext.html" title="class in javax.xml.bind"><CODE>JAXBContext</CODE></A> as
<tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)</tt>
(<tt>Animal</tt> will be automatically picked up since <tt>Dog</tt>
and <tt>Cat</tt> refers to it.)
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<A HREF="../../../../javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSeeAlso.html" title="annotation in javax.xml.bind.annotation"><CODE>XmlSeeAlso</CODE></A> annotation would allow you to write:
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&#64;XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class})
class Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
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This would allow you to do <tt>JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)</tt>.
By the help of this annotation, JAXB implementations will be able to
correctly bind <tt>Dog</tt> and <tt>Cat</tt>.
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<DT><B>Version:</B></DT>
<DD>$Revision: 1.1 $</DD>
<DT><B>Author:</B></DT>
<DD>Kohsuke Kawaguchi</DD>
<DT><B>Since:</B></DT>
<DD>JAXB2.1</DD>
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