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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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/*
 * Copyright (c) 1997, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0, which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 */

package com.sun.tools.xjc.api;

import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;

/**
 * The in-memory representation of the JAXB binding.
 * 
 * @author
 *     Kohsuke Kawaguchi ([email protected])
 */
public interface JAXBModel {

    /**
     * Returns a list of fully-qualified class names, which should
     * be used at the runtime to create a new {@link JAXBContext}.
     *
     * 
     * Until the JAXB team fixes the bootstrapping issue, we have
     * two bootstrapping methods. This one is to use a list of class names
     * to call {@link JAXBContext#newInstance(Class[])} method. If
     * this method returns non-null, the caller is expected to use
     * that method. This is meant to be a temporary workaround.
     *
     * @return
     *      non-null read-only list.
     *
     * @deprecated
     *      this method is provided for now to allow gradual migration for JAX-RPC.
     */
    List getClassList();

}