Customizing the JAXB marshalling/unmarshalling
The following example is used for customizing the way how the dates are being parsed, but it could be used for any other specific customizing import java . text . SimpleDateFormat ; import java . util . Date ; import javax . xml . bind . annotation . adapters . XmlAdapter ; public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter < String , Date > { private SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat ( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" ); @Override public String marshal ( Date v ) throws Exception { return dateFormat . format ( v ); } @Override public Date unmarshal ( String v ) throws Exception { return dateFormat . parse ( v ); } } which then as adapter can be used to customize marshalling/unmarshalling... import java . util . Date ; import javax . xml . bind . annotation . XmlAccessorType ; import javax . xml . bind . annotation . XmlAccessType ; import javax . xml . bind . annot...