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Representing XML Content

This section describes how JAXB represents XML content as Java objects.

Java Representation of XML Schema

JAXB supports the grouping of generated classes in Java packages. A package comprises:

A Java class name is derived from the XML element name, or specified by a binding customization.
An ObjectFactory class is a factory that is used to return instances of a bound Java class.

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