Summarize: a monotonic transformation of a utility function is a utility function that represents the same preferences as the original utility function.

This can result in errors when you compile, because the generated classes and their method signatures may be different from your original Java ones in your utility JAR files.

If you just want generic serialization of gnosis.xml.objectify objects, perhaps with a few values changed from the original XML, you can write a utility function to do this in 12 lines.