@XmlElement(required=true) for @WebParam does not work

Question

I\'m building web service using JAX-WS. I have a strange problem that the annotation @XmlElement(required=true) for @WebParam works in some @

Answer 1

If you are having the following error message: "The annotation @XmlElement is disallowed for this location", chances are you're using the wrong import statement.

Change it to:

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

As Eclipse suggests another package as the first option, it's a very common mistake.