How to use jaxb_commons plugins from maven

Question

I'm trying to use a jaxb plugin to insert a interface into a choice element generating the classes from maven. The problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to do so from maven, the repository isn't clear from the documentation and the only example (bellow) doesn't work, it seems to ignore the plugin (maven reports no error about not finding it) or the plugin doesn't have all the adds-ons currently listed in the project documentation:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <generatePackage>br.com.wonder.nfe.xml</generatePackage>
        <args>
            <arg>-Xifins</arg>
        </args>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
                <artifactId>basic</artifactId>
                <version>0.4.1.5</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I have these in the root pom:

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
        <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
    </pluginRepository>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>maven-repository.dev.java.net</id>
        <name>Java.net Maven 1 Repository (legacy)</name>
        <url>http://download.java.net/maven/1</url>
        <layout>legacy</layout>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Running that gives:

Error while setting CmdLine options '[-Xifins, -episode, /home/administrador/JavaApp/wnfe3/wnfe-ejb/target/generated-sources/xjc/META-INF/sun-jaxb.episode]'!

Embedded error: unrecognized parameter -Xifins

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it looks like the interface injection plugin is no longer well supported. In fact, I'm having trouble finding the JAR for download.

Thankfully, the JAXB2 Basics Plugins provides a similar mechanism for adding an interface to the generated JAXB stubs (see the Inheritance plugin).

The JAXB2 Basics plugin is available in the java.net Maven repository.

Using the Inheritance plugin, your POM will look like:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>0.6.2</version>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <goals>
            <goal>generate</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
      <configuration>
        <extension>true</extension>
        <args>
          <arg>-Xinheritance</arg>
        </args>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
               <artifactId>jaxb2-basics</artifactId>
               <version>0.5.3</version>
           </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
    ...
  </plugins>
  ...
</build>

The Inheritance plugin documentation has an example for what your JAXB Bindings would look like. For your convenience, I've reproduced the example below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
    xmlns:inheritance="http://jaxb2-commons.dev.java.net/basic/inheritance"
    jaxb:version="2.1"
    jaxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="inheritance">

    <!-- ... -->

    <xs:complexType name="WillBeMadeCloneableType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:appinfo>
                <inheritance:implements>java.lang.Cloneable</inheritance:implements>
            </xs:appinfo>
        </xs:annotation>
        <!-- ... -->
    </xs:complexType>
    <!-- ... -->
</xs:schema>