JAXB and XML generation; missing elements

The Java API for XML Binding, JAXB (https://jaxb.java.net/) is a framework often used in Java to make working with XML easier. Most modern Java IDE's (such as JDeveloper, Eclipse, Netbeans) support direct generation of Java classes from an XML schema definition. JAXB allows Java code to be marshalled to XML and XML to be unmarshalled to Java classes.

If you generate Java classes from an XML schema definition, create an instance of the generated class and unmarshall it to XML, the XML will not in all cases be compliant to the schema the classes were generated from. This can cause problems if correctness is assumed based on usage of the framework. Validation can help detect problems and there are several methods to circumvent them.