Difference of Maven JAXB plugins

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Let’s summarize. We have/had:

  1. the maven-jaxb2-plugin (https://github.com/highsource/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, the 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 plugin #1:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <inherited>true</inherited>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.5</source>
          <target>1.5</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

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