See the referenced URL.

The problem is that if you put @xmlelement, it will be treated as an element,
and to have it bound as a map you need to have no annotation. But that is
obviously broken, as not all properties/fields are bound by default (as with the
case of private fields.)

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All
URL: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=166043#166043

Affected Versions

[2.1 EA1]