Anyway I've had enough of this thread. We can continue to argue about arguing as much as you want, but it isn't going to get us anywhere. :-) The original point was: anonymous wrote : | t would be cool if we could make EnumValueAdapter be case unaware for String keys. | Probably the best way to impl this is to extend EVA, where we before provide proper hooks. * Adding a hook to hook is not "cool" it is pointless, overly complicated and bound to lead to confusion/maintenance problems. * There is already is a mechanism to convert the enum values to other types or values. * What there isn't is a declartive (annotation) to ignore case when the xml enum type extends xsd:string. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137429#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...