How do you customize how JAXB generates plural method names?

By default the following is generated for your schema fragment:

    import java.util.ArrayList;    import java.util.List;    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;    @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)    @XmlType(name = "physicianList", propOrder = {        "physician"    })    public class PhysicianList {        @XmlElement(name = "Physician")        protected List<Physician> physician;        public List<Physician> getPhysician() {            if (physician == null) {                physician = new ArrayList<Physician>();            }            return this.physician;        }    }

If you annotate your XML schema:

    <xs:schema        xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"        jaxb:version="2.1">        <xs:complexType name="physician">            <xs:sequence>            </xs:sequence>        </xs:complexType>        <xs:complexType name="physicianList">            <xs:sequence>                <xs:element name="Physician"                            type="physician"                            minOccurs="0"                            maxOccurs="unbounded">                      <xs:annotation>                          <xs:appinfo>                              <jaxb:property name="physicians"/>                          </xs:appinfo>                      </xs:annotation>                 </xs:element>            </xs:sequence>        </xs:complexType>    </xs:schema>

Then you can generate the desired class:

import java.util.ArrayList;import java.util.List;import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)@XmlType(name = "physicianList", propOrder = {    "physicians"})public class PhysicianList {    @XmlElement(name = "Physician")    protected List<Physician> physicians;    public List<Physician> getPhysicians() {        if (physicians == null) {            physicians = new ArrayList<Physician>();        }        return this.physicians;    }}

Maybe it's a little late to answer, but there's another way to generate plural names simply, without mixing XML Schema and JAXB Bindings.

By using JAXB XJC binding compiler with the "-extension" mode. A customization bindings file need to be added, like this one :

<?xml version="1.0"?><jxb:bindings version="1.0"              xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"              xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"              xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc"              jxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="xjc">  <jxb:globalBindings>                  <xjc:simple/>  </jxb:globalBindings></jxb:bindings>

References :

• Experimental simpler&better binding mode (EDIT: obsolete link)
• Experimental simpler&better binding mode (new link)
• JAXB: How to change XJC-generated classes names when attr type is specified in XSD?