Specify a package instead of "classesToBeBound" for spring Jaxb2Marshaller

Question

I am trying to use Jaxb2Marshaller to marshal a set of java classes using spring. I know this can be done using the following code

<bean id="jaxbMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller">
    <property name="classesToBeBound">
        <list>
            <value>com.example.test1</value>
            <value>com.example.test2</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>  

What I would like to do is instead of specifying a list of classes, I would like to specify just the package name containing all the classes ( in the above case com.example).

Does anyone know of a way to do this, or any other way which does not require me to list all the classes. any help would be appreciated !

Thanks.

Answer 1

From Spring 3.1 (i think) you can use also the packagesToScan property, which accepts wildcards. It just doesn't work with elements without the @XmlRootElement annotation, just like the contextPath property. These need generated object-factory.

Could look like:

<property name="packagesToScan">
    <list>
        <value>com.test.*</value>
        <value>com.*.test</value>
    </list>
</property>