JAXB2 Basic Annotate plugin not working with maven cxf-codegen-plugin - maven

Question

I'm using the cxf-codegen-plugin to generate Java classes from wsdl files. I want to add annotations to once of the classes and I specify a Binding File and use the jaxb2-basics-annotate plugin to do so. The generated files don't contain the the annotation specified in the binding file.
Here is the configuration in the pom file
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<wsdlOptions>
<wsdlOption>
<wsdl>src/main/resources/wsdl/QueryJobService.wsdl</wsdl>
<wsdlLocation>classpath:wsdl/QueryJobService.wsdl</wsdlLocation>
<extraargs>
<extraarg>-xjc-Xannotate</extraarg>
</extraargs>
<bindingFiles>
<bindingFile>src/main/resources/wsdl/xsd/job-bindings.xjb</bindingFile>
</bindingFiles>
</wsdlOption>
</wsdlOptions>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-basics-annotate</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
and here is the binding file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<jaxb:bindings
xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:annox="http://annox.dev.java.net"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/bindingschema_2_0.xsd"
version="2.1">
<jaxb:bindings schemaLocation="data.xsd" node="/xs:schema">
<jaxb:bindings node="//xs:complexType[#name='resource']">
<annox:annotate target="class">
<annox:annotate annox:class="javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso" value="model.common.sm.dcp.com.data._1.SimOrder"/>
</annox:annotate>
</jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>
running maven in debug mode doesn't show anything strange. Is it so that cxf-codegen-plugin and jaxb2-basics-annotate don't work together ? Or is there something wrong with my configurations ?

Answer 1

It should work with CXF.
Please make sure that bindings are applied at all. Try to replace annox:annotate with something like <jaxb:class name="FooBar"/> - does it get generated as FooBar?
Also try the new Java Syntax: https://github.com/highsource/jaxb2-annotate-plugin instead of XML.
Finally, I guess you might be missing this attribute on your root jaxb:bindings element:
jaxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="annox"
See this example.
If nothing helps, send me a PR on github.
SO disclaimer: I'm the author of jaxb2-annotate-plugin.