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 <h1 class="sect1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">Understanding Static and Dynamic Entities</font></h1>
 <p>There are two high-level ways to use EclipseLink JAXB: using pre-existing Java classes (<a href="#BABEGGEF">Using Static MOXy</a>), or using EclipseLink-generated in-memory Java classes (<a href="#BABJEIAF">Using Dynamic MOXy</a>).</p>
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 <h2 class="sect2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">Using Static MOXy</font></h2>
 <p>The most common way to use EclipseLink JAXB is with existing Java classes, mapped to XML using Java annotations and/or EclipseLink OXM metadata. These classes might be ones that you have written yourself, or they could be generated from an XML Schema using the XJC compiler tool.</p>
 <p>Using this approach, you will be dealing with your actual domain objects when converting to and from XML. <a href="#BGBHHJEC">Example 9-1</a> shows a simple Java class that can be used with JAXB.</p>
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 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

 @XmlRootElement
 public class Customer {
    @XmlAttribute
    private long id;

    private String name;

    // ...
    // get() and set() methods
    // ...
 }

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 <p>When using static classes with JAXB, you can take advantage of JAXB's defaulting behavior and only annotate things which differ from the default. For example, all fields on a Java class will default to being mapped to an XML element, so no annotation is needed on the <code>name</code> field. We want the <code>id</code> field, however, to map to an XML attribute, so have annotated it as such.</p>
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 <p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Example 9-2 Marshalling and Unmarshalling Example</font></em></strong></p>
 <pre xml:space="preserve" class="oac_no_warn">
 JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class, Address.class);
 Customer customer = (Customer) jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller().unmarshal(instanceDoc);

 Address address = new Address();
 address.setStreet("1001 Fleet St.");

 customer.setAddress(address);

 jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(customer, System.out);

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 <p>With EclipseLink Dynamic MOXy, you can bootstrap a <code>JAXBContext</code> from a variety of metadata sources and use existing JAXB APIs to marshal and unmarshal data&hellip;<em>without having compiled Java class files on the classpath</em>. This allows you to alter the metadata as needed, without having to update and recompile the previously-generated Java source code.</p>
 <p>You should consider using Dynamic MOXy when:</p>
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 <h3 class="sect3"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">Using Dynamic Entities</font></h3>
 <p>Instead of using actual Java classes (such as <code>Customer.class</code> or <code>Address.class</code>), Dynamic MOXy uses a simple <code>get(propertyName)</code>/<code>set(propertyName, propertyValue)</code> API to manipulate data. EclipseLink generates (in memory) a <code>DynamicType</code> associated with each <code>DynamicEntity</code>.</p>
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 DynamicJAXBContext dynamicJAXBContext = DynamicJAXBContextFactory.createContextFromXSD(xsdInputStream, null, myClassLoader, null);
 DynamicEntity customer = (DynamicEntity) dynamicJAXBContext.createUnmarshaller().unmarshal(instanceDoc);

 String lastName = customer.get("lastName");
 List orders = customer.get("orders");
 ...
 DynamicEntity address = dynamicJAXBContext.newDynamicEntity("mynamespace.Address");
 address.set("street", "1001 Fleet St.");

 customer.set("lastName", lastName + "Jr.");
 customer.set("address", address);

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	<h1 class="sect1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">Understanding Static and Dynamic Entities</font></h1>
	<p>There are two high-level ways to use EclipseLink JAXB: using pre-existing Java classes (<a href="#BABEGGEF">Using Static MOXy</a>), or using EclipseLink-generated in-memory Java classes (<a href="#BABJEIAF">Using Dynamic MOXy</a>).</p>
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	<p>The most common way to use EclipseLink JAXB is with existing Java classes, mapped to XML using Java annotations and/or EclipseLink OXM metadata. These classes might be ones that you have written yourself, or they could be generated from an XML Schema using the XJC compiler tool.</p>
	<p>Using this approach, you will be dealing with your actual domain objects when converting to and from XML. <a href="#BGBHHJEC">Example 9-1</a> shows a simple Java class that can be used with JAXB.</p>
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	<p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Example 9-1 Sample Java Class</font></em></strong></p>
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	import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
	import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

	@XmlRootElement
	public class Customer {
	@XmlAttribute
	private long id;

	private String name;

	// ...
	// get() and set() methods
	// ...
	}

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	<p>When using static classes with JAXB, you can take advantage of JAXB's defaulting behavior and only annotate things which differ from the default. For example, all fields on a Java class will default to being mapped to an XML element, so no annotation is needed on the <code>name</code> field. We want the <code>id</code> field, however, to map to an XML attribute, so have annotated it as such.</p>
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	<p><a href="#BABDJDHH">Example 9-2</a> demonstrates how to unmarshal, modify, and marshal an object using static JAXB:</p>
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	JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class, Address.class);
	Customer customer = (Customer) jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller().unmarshal(instanceDoc);

	Address address = new Address();
	address.setStreet("1001 Fleet St.");

	customer.setAddress(address);

	jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(customer, System.out);

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	<p>With EclipseLink Dynamic MOXy, you can bootstrap a <code>JAXBContext</code> from a variety of metadata sources and use existing JAXB APIs to marshal and unmarshal data…<em>without having compiled Java class files on the classpath</em>. This allows you to alter the metadata as needed, without having to update and recompile the previously-generated Java source code.</p>
	<p>You should consider using Dynamic MOXy when:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>You want EclipseLink to generate mappings from an XML schema (XSD).</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>You do not want to deal with concrete Java domain classes.</p>
	</li>
	</ul>
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	<h3 class="sect3"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">Using Dynamic Entities</font></h3>
	<p>Instead of using actual Java classes (such as <code>Customer.class</code> or <code>Address.class</code>), Dynamic MOXy uses a simple <code>get(propertyName)</code>/<code>set(propertyName, propertyValue)</code> API to manipulate data. EclipseLink generates (in memory) a <code>DynamicType</code> associated with each <code>DynamicEntity</code>.</p>
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	<p><code>DynamicTypes</code> are similar to Java classes; whereas <code>DynamicEntities</code> can be thought of as instances of a <code>DynamicType</code>.</p>
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	<p><a href="#BABDIAJG">Example 9-3</a> demonstrates how to unmarshal, modify, and marshal an object using dynamic JAXB:</p>
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	DynamicJAXBContext dynamicJAXBContext = DynamicJAXBContextFactory.createContextFromXSD(xsdInputStream, null, myClassLoader, null);
	DynamicEntity customer = (DynamicEntity) dynamicJAXBContext.createUnmarshaller().unmarshal(instanceDoc);

	String lastName = customer.get("lastName");
	List orders = customer.get("orders");
	...
	DynamicEntity address = dynamicJAXBContext.newDynamicEntity("mynamespace.Address");
	address.set("street", "1001 Fleet St.");

	customer.set("lastName", lastName + "Jr.");
	customer.set("address", address);

	dynamicJAXBContext.createMarshaller().marshal(customer, System.out);

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	<p>XML names found in the metadata (complex type names, element names, attribute names) will be translated to Java identifiers according to the algorithms described in "Appendix D: Binding XML Names to Java Identifiers" of the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 Specification (<code><a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222">http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222</a></code>).</p>
	<p>In <a href="#BABDIAJG">Example 9-3</a>, <code>last-name</code> in XML was translated to <code>lastName</code> for the Java object.</p>
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