Writing JAXB Plugins

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What can a plugin do?

A JAXB RI plugin participates in the code generation from a schema. It can define its own customizations that users can use to control it, it can access the code that the JAXB RI generates, and it can generate additional classes/methods/fields/annotations/comments.

A plugin can also choose to take over the XJC's code generation process completely. Only one plugin can do this at any given time, but this allows a plugin to generate radically different code from a schema.

Interested in writing a plugin?

If you are thinking about writing a plugin, first join the users list and drop us a note so that we can help you.

Resources

(blog) Writing a plug-in for the JAXB RI is really easy: Technical introduction of a JAXB RI plugin. What it can do, how to write one, how can you use it.
(blog) How to write a jaxb2 plugin?: Process introduction of a JAXB RI plugin. How do you start it and host it on java.net?
(mail thread) Setting up a productive development/debugging environment for plugins: How do you run a plugin under a debugger?
JAXB2 commons project: Learn from the source code of the other plugins: (java.net)
Plugins bundled in the JAXB RI: More plugin source code for you to look at: (java.net)