How to generate classes from wsdl using Maven and wsimport?

Question

When I attempt to run \"mvn generate-sources\" this is my output :

SLF4J: Failed to load class \"org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder\".
SLF4J: Defaulting to n         


        

Answer 1

I see some people prefer to generate sources into the target via jaxws-maven-plugin AND make this classes visible in source via build-helper-maven-plugin. As an argument for this structure

the version management system (svn/etc.) would always notice changed sources

With git it is not true. So you can just configure jaxws-maven-plugin to put them into your sources, but not under the target folder. Next time you build your project, git will not mark these generated files as changed. Here is the simple solution with only one plugin:

      
        org.codehaus.mojo
        jaxws-maven-plugin
        2.6

    
      
        org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons
        jaxb2-fluent-api
        3.0
      
      
        com.sun.xml.ws
        jaxws-tools
        2.3.0
      
    

    
      
        
          wsimport
        
        
          som.path.generated
          
            -Xfluent-api
          
          true
          true 
          ${project.build.sourceDirectory}
          src/main/resources/META-INF/wsdl
          META-INF/wsdl/soap.wsdl
        
      
    
  

Additionally (just to note) in this example SOAP classes are generated with Fluent API, so you can create them like:

A a = new A()
  .withField1(value1)
  .withField2(value2);