I have this test class

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

class CompileTest {

   void foo( @XmlElement String in ) {
   }

}

my java version is

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_23"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_23-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode, sharing)

and when I try to compile that class I'm getting 

javac CompileTest.java
CompileTest.java:5: annotation type not applicable to this kind of declaration
   void foo( @XmlElement String in ) {
             ^
1 error

and that's valid for Java 6. When I tried to add newer JAXB library to class path, it didn't help. Is there a way to solve this?

javac -cp jaxb-api-2.2.4.jar CompileTest.java
java jaxb
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