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Difference of Maven JAXB plugins

Asked 2010-03-12T13:07:40.177
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I have determined that two JAXB plugins for Maven 2 exist, with some different configurations.

The one is from Sun: http://jaxb.dev.java.net/jaxb-maven2-plugin/, the other from Mojohaus: http://mojohaus.org/jaxb2-maven-plugin/

Which of these two plugins can be recommended?

Thanks Matt. On my little research project, I found that there's quite another plugin comming from the sunners:

<groupId>com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2</groupId>  
<artifactId>maven-jaxb-plugin</artifactId>

and that one:

<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>

and still the one from Codehouse.

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Let's summarize. We have/had:

  1. the jaxb-maven-plugin (https://github.com/highsource/jaxb-tools), formerly called 'maven-jaxb2-plugin'.
  2. the maven-jaxb-plugin (https://jaxb.dev.java.net/jaxb-maven2-plugin/)
  3. the jaxb2-maven-plugin (https://github.com/mojohaus/jaxb2-maven-plugin)

Based on the comments of this thread, I've always used the maven-jaxb2-plugin (i.e. plugin #1):

Concerning the org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2:maven-jaxb2-plugin versus com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2:maven-jaxb-plugin, from my point of view it's definitely the first one (http://maven-jaxb2-plugin.java.net/).

This plugin has much more features than com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2:maven-jaxb-plugin, the development is active. Finally, I'm one of the authors :) and I'd say we keep in touch with JAXB developers and users and react to the latests features/requests.

And indeed, plugin #2 is dead. And because I've always been happy with #1, I've never used plugin #3 so can't really say anything about it. Just in case, here is a working configuration for the old plugin #1:


                        
                        

                            answered 2010-03-12T17:35:17.503
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I would guess that one is for the original JAXB specification and the codehaus one is for the JAXB 2.1 specification (and if the dev.java.net would load some time this century, I'd be able to say for sure).

answered 2010-03-12T13:09:51.847

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