Question

what is the use of maven-jaxb2-plugin? is it used to generate java classes from xsd? what kind of classes does it generates from xsd?

maven-jaxb2-plugin

Thanks!

Answer 1

Most common use is in soap based webservices, SOAP webservices exposes WSDL and that defines the schema of the classes being used in webservices

for example:

public void sayHello(Person person){}

Now client need to make call to it using an instance of Person which client will come to know from WSDL and this plugin helps to generate this classes