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Old JAXB Binding Compiler. Contains source code needed for binding customization files into java sources. In other words: the *tool* to generate java classes for the given xml representation.

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package com.sun.tools.xjc.outline;

import com.sun.tools.xjc.generator.bean.ImplStructureStrategy;

/**
 * Sometimes a single JAXB-generated bean spans across multiple Java classes/interfaces.
 * We call them "aspects of a bean".
 *
 * 
 * This is an enumeration of all possible aspects.
 *
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 *
 * TODO: move this to the model package
 */
public enum Aspect {
    /**
     * The exposed part of the bean.
     * 

     * This corresponds to the content interface when we are geneting one.
     * This would be the same as the {@link #IMPLEMENTATION} when we are
     * just generating beans.
     *
     * 

     * This could be an interface, or it could be a class.
     *
     * We don't have any other {@link ImplStructureStrategy} at this point,
     * but generally you can't assume anything about where this could be
     * or whether that's equal to {@link #IMPLEMENTATION}.
     */
    EXPOSED,
    /**
     * The part of the bean that holds all the implementations.
     *
     * 
     * This is always a class, never an interface.
     */
    IMPLEMENTATION
}