I have converters that require intitialization via their constructors (common functionality in an AbstractConverter and text like:

public class MatrixIdConverter extends AbstractMapConverter {
public MatrixIdConverter() {
super("matrix id", ServiceLocator.getMapManager().getMatrixNameMap());
}
}


the problem is that such a converter invoked via an @XStreamConverter(MatrixIdConverter.class) annotation does not work -- due to using Sun14ReflectionProvider to instantiate the converter object (AnnotationReflectionConverter.java at about line 35):

protected void marshallField(final MarshallingContext context,
Object newObj, Field field) {
XStreamConverter annotation = annotationProvider.getAnnotation(field, XStreamConverter.class);
if (annotation != null) {
context.convertAnother(newObj, (Converter) reflectionProvider
.newInstance(annotation.value()));
} else {
context.convertAnother(newObj);
}
}

Just because I want to use the non-constructor serialization for my XML serialization does not mean I want to avoid constructors for my converters. Is there a way to avoid this? (I.e. I would think that the code should always use pure Java reflection for instantiating "worker" objects and only use Sun14 style reflection for instantiating deserialized objects.)