2362N/A * Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 2362N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 2362N/A * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 2362N/A * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 2362N/A * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 0N/A * Maps a JavaBean property to XML ID. 0N/A * To preserve referential integrity of an object graph across XML 0N/A * serialization followed by a XML deserialization, requires an object 0N/A * reference to be marshalled by reference or containment 0N/A * appropriately. Annotations <tt>@XmlID</tt> and <tt>@XmlIDREF</tt> 0N/A * together allow a customized mapping of a JavaBean property's 0N/A * type by containment or reference. 0N/A * <p><b>Usage</b> </p> 0N/A * The <tt>@XmlID</tt> annotation can be used with the following 0N/A * <li> a JavaBean property </li> 0N/A * <li> non static, non transient field </li> 0N/A * <p>See "Package Specification" in javax.xml.bind.package javadoc for 0N/A * additional common information.</p> 0N/A * The usage is subject to the following constraints: 0N/A * <li> At most one field or property in a class can be annotated 0N/A * with <tt>@XmlID</tt>. </li> 0N/A * <li> The JavaBean property's type must be <tt>java.lang.String</tt>.</li> 0N/A * <li> The only other mapping annotations that can be used 0N/A * with <tt>@XmlID</tt> 0N/A * are:<tt>@XmlElement</tt> and <tt>@XmlAttribute</tt>.</li> 0N/A * <p><b>Example</b>: Map a JavaBean property's type to <tt>xs:ID</tt></p> 0N/A * // Example: code fragment 0N/A * public class Customer { 0N/A * public String getCustomerID(); 0N/A * public void setCustomerID(String id); 0N/A * .... other properties not shown 0N/A * <!-- Example: XML Schema fragment --> 0N/A * <xs:complexType name="Customer"> 0N/A * <xs:complexContent> 0N/A * <xs:attribute name="customerID" type="xs:ID"/> 0N/A * </xs:complexContent> 0N/A * </xs:complexType> 0N/A * @author Sekhar Vajjhala, Sun Microsystems, Inc.