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Factory that creates new JAXBContext
instances.
*
* JAXBContextFactory can be located using {@link java.util.ServiceLoader#load(Class)}
*
* @since 9, JAXB 2.3
*/
public interface JAXBContextFactory {
/**
*
* Create a new instance of a {@code JAXBContext} class. * *
* For semantics see {@link javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext#newInstance(Class[], java.util.Map)}
*
* @param classesToBeBound
* list of java classes to be recognized by the new {@link JAXBContext}.
* Can be empty, in which case a {@link JAXBContext} that only knows about
* spec-defined classes will be returned.
* @param properties
* provider-specific properties. Can be null, which means the same thing as passing
* in an empty map.
*
* @return
* A new instance of a {@code JAXBContext}.
*
* @throws JAXBException
* if an error was encountered while creating the
* {@code JAXBContext}. See {@link JAXBContext#newInstance(Class[], Map)} for details.
*
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if the parameter contains {@code null} (i.e., {@code newInstance(null,someMap);})
*
* @since 9, JAXB 2.3
*/
JAXBContext createContext(Class>[] classesToBeBound,
Map
* Create a new instance of a {@code JAXBContext} class.
*
*
* For semantics see {@link javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext#newInstance(String, ClassLoader, java.util.Map)}
*
*
* The interpretation of properties is up to implementations. Implementations must
* throw {@code JAXBException} if it finds properties that it doesn't understand.
*
* @param contextPath list of java package names that contain schema derived classes
* @param classLoader
* This class loader will be used to locate the implementation classes.
* @param properties
* provider-specific properties. Can be null, which means the same thing as passing
* in an empty map.
*
* @return a new instance of a {@code JAXBContext}
* @throws JAXBException if an error was encountered while creating the
* {@code JAXBContext}. See {@link JAXBContext#newInstance(String, ClassLoader, Map)} for details.
*
* @since 9, JAXB 2.3
*/
JAXBContext createContext(String contextPath,
ClassLoader classLoader,
Map