JAXB: How to unmarshall objects in lists?

On the records property add:

@XmlElementWrapper(name="records")
@XmlElement(name="data")

For more information on JAXB and collection properties see:

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/09/jaxb-collection-properties.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3683598/jaxb-how-to-unmarshall-objects-in-lists

JAXB required=true doesn't seem to require

The JAXB reference implementation doesn't use this attribute for validation, it's purely there for documentation purposes. If you need to validate the documents, you need to define an XML Schema, and inject it into the Marshaller or Unmarshaller, using SchemaFactory. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669632/jaxb-required-true-doesnt-seem-to-require