Is it possible to get maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin working with Java 7?

Question

When I try to use maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin with java 7

 <groupId>com.sun.tools.jxc.maven2</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> 

I get an error message:

 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.sun.tools.jxc.maven2:maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin:1.2:generate (default) on project TopologyProvisionerDom: Execution default of goal com.sun.tools.jxc.maven2:maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin:1.2:generate failed: A required class was missing while executing com.sun.tools.jxc.maven2:maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin:1.2:generate: com/sun/mirror/apt/AnnotationProcessorFactory 

It seems that AnnotationProcessorFactory is being deleted / deprecated in Java 7? Can jaxb schemagen be used to work with this plugin? Is there an alternative approach for getting schema generation from JAXB source code using JDK 7?

Answer 1

Have you tried using org.codehaus.mojo:jaxb2-maven-plugin ?

Answer 2

Here's how it works (add this profile to your pom.xml ):

 <profile> <id>jdk7-fix</id> <activation> <file><exists>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</exists></file> </activation> <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.sun.tools.jxc.maven2</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin</artifactId> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun</groupId> <artifactId>tools</artifactId> <version>1.7</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build> </profile> 

Answer 3

Not sure if anyone else is listening to this topic, but hey ...

I used the transformSchemas parameter, for example.

 <transformSchemas> <transformSchema> <uri>YOUR NS IN YOUR GENERATED SCHEMA FILE</uri> <toFile>DESIRED NAME OF YOUR XSD FILE</toFile> </transformSchema> </transformSchemas> 

amuses

-t.