wsimport - how to generate service endpoint classes and JAXB classes in separate projects/folders

Question

We are using a top-down approach for a project with multiple web services (multiple WSDL\'s). Each web service needs to be set up as a separate project and deployed as a sep

Answer 1

You can achieve this using JAXB/JAX-WS customization. Suppose you have XSD types embedded into WSDL. Then your customization will look like:

The above configuration refers the following project directory structure:

+-- binding
|   +-- jaxws-binding.xml
+-- wsdl
|   +-- some.wsdl
+-- src
    ...

If you use org.codehaus.mojo:jaxws-maven-plugin plugin, then you need to specify binding.

In case your XSD is external to WSDL, then you need to specify customizations separately:

+-- binding
|   +-- jaxb-binding.xml
|   +-- jaxws-binding.xml
+-- wsdl
    ...

Then jaxb-binding.xml will look like:

• For Ant build you simply generate two jars for different packages.
• As I personally do not know any way to create two JAR artefacts from one Maven project :) then the most simple solution would be for you to generate JAXB classes from XSD in project-beans project and in project-ws project remove generated JAXB classes after wsimport run (you can use ant plugin for that).