Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.annotation.AnnotationReader

Question

You might think that following issue is very simple, but I don\'t know what I did wrong here. I feel I added required dependencies. Haven\'t I?

Could anyone please s

Answer 1

As per link: Why has AnnotationReader been removed from JAXB reference implementation?, you need to simply use below maven dependencies:

    com.sun.xml.bind
    jaxb-impl
    2.2.11



    com.sun.xml.bind
    jaxb-core
    2.2.11

You need to refactor code a bit. Also looks like you've not created same name fields of model class, it should be like below: Person.java

@XmlRootElement(name="Person")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Person {
    @XmlElement
    private String first;
    @XmlElement
    private String last;
    @XmlElement
    private String age;
    public String getFirst() {
        return first;
    }
    public void setFirst(String first) {
        this.first = first;
    }
    public String getLast() {
        return last;
    }
    public void setLast(String last) {
        this.last = last;
    }
    public String getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public void setAge(String age) {
        this.age = age;
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Person [first=" + first + ", last=" + last + ", age=" + age + "]";
    }
} 

Book.java

@XmlRootElement(name="book")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Book {
    private List person = new ArrayList();

    public List getPerson() {
        return person;
    }

    public void setPerson(List person) {
        this.person = person;
    }
}

ReadXMLFileJaxb.java

public class ReadXMLFileJaxb {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File file = new File(ReadXMLFileDOM.class.getClassLoader().getResource("book.xml").getFile());

        try {
            JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Book.class);
            Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
            Book book = (Book) unmarshaller.unmarshal(file);
            System.out.println(book.getPerson().size());

            for (int i = 0; i < book.getPerson().size(); i++) {
                System.out.println("------------");
                System.out.println(book.getPerson().get(i).getFirst());
                System.out.println(book.getPerson().get(i).getLast());
                System.out.println(book.getPerson().get(i).getAge());
            }

        } catch (JAXBException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

The below output I see:

3
------------
Kiran
Pai
22
------------
Bill
Gates
46
------------
Steve
Jobs
40