Incorrect System property to define the provider factory class

[Tomas-Kraus]

The latest javadoc of JAXBContext class specify how to use a system property to define the JAXB context Factory :

Discovery of JAXB implementation

When one of the newInstance methods is called, a JAXB implementation is discovered by the following steps.
...
2. If the system property JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY exists, then its value is assumed to be the provider factory class. This phase of the look up enables per-JVM override of the JAXB implementation.
...

The javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY value is "javax.xml.bind.context.factory".

It simply does not work as specified because the static method ContextFinder.find(...) is incorrect :

final String jaxbContextFQCN = JAXBContext.class.getName();
...
logger.fine("Searching the system property");

// search for a system property second (javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext)
factoryClassName = AccessController.doPrivileged(new GetPropertyAction(jaxbContextFQCN));
if( factoryClassName != null )

{ return newInstance( contextPath, factoryClassName, classLoader, properties ); }

As a workaround, I use this particular value "javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext" at runtime to specify which JAXB implementation I want :

/** JAXB 2 Context Factory (System property) instead of "javax.xml.bind.context.factory" */
public static final String JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY = "javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext";

/** JAXB implementation 2.1.12 */
public static final String JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY_IMPLEMENTATION = "com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory";

...
// Define the system property to define which JAXB implementation to use :
System.setProperty(JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY, JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY_IMPLEMENTATION);

if (logger.isLoggable(Level.INFO))

{ logger.info("JAXB implementation = " + System.getProperty(JAXB_CONTEXT_FACTORY)); }

// create a JAXBContext capable of handling classes generated into
// ivoa schema package
JAXBContext c = JAXBContext.newInstance(path);

...

Environment

x86_64 GNU/Linux

Affected Versions

[2.2.3u1]

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Reported by bourgeslaurent

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Was assigned to snajper

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
snajper said:
Fixed, first the documented property is being looked at, the current way is kept still for compatibility reasons.

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Marked as fixed on Tuesday, April 5th 2011, 8:46:30 pm

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAXB-816

[Tomas-Kraus]

• Issue Imported From: Incorrect System property to define the provider factory class javaee/jaxb-v2#816
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Closed By:@glassfishrobot