How to add comments for JAXB

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I’d be surprise if jaxb doesn’t support adding comment <!-- –> when generating XML. Did anyone had success??? I’d really hate doing replace method to add some XML comments…

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One thing you could do is to use Marshal Event Callbacks(https://jaxb.dev.java.net/nonav/2.1.4/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/Marshaller.html#marshalEventCallback) to get access to the marshalled objects before/after marshalling and then output some info about them into the same file.

Create a new listener on the marshaller, override the “beforeMarshal” method, and write something to the writer passed in to the marshaller’s “marshal” method.

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Thanks for the suggestion. That would definitely work. For now, I just put a gigantic comment in the beginning of the XML. Still, I’m a bit surprise on how cumbersome to add comment through that way… ah well~ I’d still use jaxb though!