web services - Handling invalid enum values while doing JAXB Unmarshalling - Stack Overflow

web services - Handling invalid enum values while doing JAXB Unmarshalling - Stack Overflow

My Jaxb has created a Enum class based on the XML schema set up.

**enum Fruit {      APPLE,ORANGE;  }**  

I am using a SOAP UI to check my web service. Since it is a free form entry, if i give a wrong fruit say "Guva" then instead of throwing an exception it is returning it as null after doing the UnMarshalling.

How can i avoid this? Should i use custom enum class instead of JAXB generated one. Please give some example. i.e.

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