On Thursday 11 October 2007, Benson Margulies wrote:
> Fellow users:
>
> When using JAXB code-first, how much do people worry about the
> irritation of Java strings mapping to arrays?

Well, I personally don't consider minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" to be an 
array.   That's and "optional" element, not an array.    Thus, IMO, it 
isn't an irritation as it's not an array.   None of the standard JAVA 
toolkits would map such a construct to an Array.  

Dan

> That is: String foo:
>
> Turns into an array of 0 or 1 strings, to account for the possibility
> of null versus "" versus "foobar".
>
> One can clean this up with XmlElement. My question is, how often do
> people bother?



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