Jaxb: How do I generate ObjectFactory class?

Question

I\'m using Java 6, JaxB 2 and SpringSource Tool Suite (same as Eclipse). I had a couple of Java classes I wrote, from which I used JaxB to generate an XML schema. However,

Answer 1

You don't 'need' a factory for the JaxB marshaller to function. If you pass it an object with a list or a map variable, it will in fact marshall it correctly. This is of course true only if you've correctly initilized the JaxB marshaller towards the object's class that you want to marshall.

You can create a factory, and that factory can create some specialized return (say you don't want it to return your public temp variables)