Java Web Services/JAXB - Abstract superclass

Question

I have a package with JAXB annotated classes with an abstract superclass. I want to use this superclass in web service interface, so I can pass any of subclasses as a parame

Answer 1

Have you specified the concrete implementation in your web service request? This works fine for me:

Abstract base class:

@XmlSeeAlso({Foo.class, Bar.class})
public abstract class FooBase
{
  ...
}

Implementation class:

@XmlRootElement(name = "foo")
public class Foo extends FooBase
{
  ...
}

Web service method:

public String getFoo(@WebParam(name = "param") final FooBase foo)
{
  ...
}

Request: