JAXB v2.2.2

## javax.xml.bind.annotation
Annotation Type XmlSeeAlso

    @Target(value=TYPE)
    @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
    public @interface XmlSeeAlso

Instructs JAXB to also bind other classes when binding this class.

Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of a given class. This often gets in a way of JAXB users, as it JAXB cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known to `JAXBContext`.

For example, with the following class definitions:

     class Animal {}
     class Dog extends Animal {}
     class Cat extends Animal {}

The user would be required to create `JAXBContext` as `JAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)` (`Animal` will be automatically picked up since `Dog` and `Cat` refers to it.)

`XmlSeeAlso` annotation would allow you to write:

     @XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class})
     class Animal {}
     class Dog extends Animal {}
     class Cat extends Animal {}

This would allow you to do `JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)`. By the help of this annotation, JAXB implementations will be able to correctly bind `Dog` and `Cat`.

Since:
  JAXB2.1
Author:
  Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Required Element Summary
`Class[]` `value`

Element Detail

### value

    public abstract Class[] value

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