JAXB generating JAXBElement instead of String

Question

I am using Apache CXF cxf-codegen-plugin Maven plugin to generate sources from WSDL file. Problem is that I get JAX

Answer 1

I think you want to add in your jaxb-binding.xml:

<jaxb:bindings ... xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc">
    <jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false">
        <xjc:simple />
        <!-- ... -->
    </jaxb:globalBindings>
</jaxb:bindings>

Answer 2

What I had to do is to wrap jaxb:globalBindings with another jaxb:bindings.

<jaxb:bindings version="2.0"
               xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb">
    <jaxb:bindings>
        <jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false"/>
    </jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>

Now everything is working, there is no JAXBElement<String> generated anymore.

Answer 3

You can't have nillable and minoccurs together. Remove the minoccurs as it doesn't make sense for strings anyway.

Answer 4

When we have both minouucrs=0 and nillable=true in XSD it will generate JAXBElement. To avoid this we need to remove either of the one.

If you use generateElementProperty="false" property when generating POJO objects from XSD scheme then it will be working like a charm