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package com.sun.tools.internal.xjc.api;

import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;

/**

 * The in-memory representation of the JAXB binding.

 *

 * @author

 *     Kohsuke Kawaguchi (kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com)

 */

public interface JAXBModel {

    /**

     * Returns a list of fully-qualified class names, which should

     * be used at the runtime to create a new {@link JAXBContext}.

     *

     * <p>

     * Until the JAXB team fixes the bootstrapping issue, we have

     * two bootstrapping methods. This one is to use a list of class names

     * to call {@link JAXBContext#newInstance(Class[])} method. If

     * this method returns non-null, the caller is expected to use

     * that method. <b>This is meant to be a temporary workaround.</b>

     *

     * @return

     *      non-null read-only list.

     *

     * @deprecated

     *      this method is provided for now to allow gradual migration for JAX-RPC.

     */

    List<String> getClassList();

}