How to use JAXBElement<String> in Web Service?

Question

I am developing an interoperable web service using WCF which I am consuming from a Java client. When I created the proxy class it generated all the getter and setter methods as well as a JAXBElement<String> field. I searched for this in the JDK API and found the constructor:

JAXBElement(QName name, Class<T> declaredType, Class scope, T value)  

How should I use this constructor? Please explain the parameters and let me know if there is a good tutorial on the Internet describing its use.

Answer 1

A solution this problem is, you do not need to create a seperate constructor for creating a JAXBElement. The respected element can be retrieved from objectFactory.create........() method. Suppose you want to create and set some value in response object, and argument is as of JAXBElement type, then you need to do this way:

someResponseObj.setMyValue(objectFactory.create.......());  /*method name that will be return a JAXBElement in setter()*/ 

Note: Please check the ObjectFactory reference because there can be multiple ObjectFactory classes in generated code so you need to refer the exact one which is associated to the class of that package.