XSD and WSDL in different directories

Question

At my work used jaxws-maven-plugin for code generation. I have two projects are "common" and'' client ". Structure roughly as follows:

app/
  common/
    resource/
      some.xsd
  client/
    resource/
      some.wsdl

How can I generate classes from wsdl in the project "client", using the xsd from the project "common"?

pom.xml:

            <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>wsimport</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <verbose>true</verbose>
                        <bindingFiles>
                            <bindingFile>${project.parent.basedir}/common/resource/some.xsd</bindingFile>
                        </bindingFiles>
                        <wsdlFiles>
                            <wsdlFile>/resource/some.wsdl</wsdlFile>
                        </wsdlFiles>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Bunyabunya

Answer 1

First of all you should stick to the maven conventions, use src/main/resources/ directories for resources.

After doing that then you can use the maven-dependency-plugin:unpack-dependencies to unpack the common jar file to access the some.xsd:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <parent>
        <groupId>com.stackoverflow.Q13155047</groupId>
        <artifactId>app</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>

    <artifactId>client</artifactId>

    <name>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</name>

    <properties>
        <schema.location>${project.build.directory}/schemas</schema.location>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.stackoverflow.Q13155047</groupId>
            <artifactId>common</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>unpack-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <includes>**/*.xsd</includes>
                            <outputDirectory>${schema.location}</outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>wsimport</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <verbose>true</verbose>
                            <bindingDirectory>${schema.location}</bindingDirectory>
                            <bindingFiles>
                                <bindingFile>some.xsd</bindingFile>
                            </bindingFiles>
                            <wsdlDirectory>src/main/resources</wsdlDirectory>
                            <wsdlFiles>
                                <wsdlFile>some.wsdl</wsdlFile>
                            </wsdlFiles>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

The jaxws-maven-plugin is bound to the generate-sources phase so adding the maven-dependency-plugin before the jaxws-maven-plugin and to the same phase makes sure that it unpacks everything before applying the wsimport goal.

Make sure that <bindingDirectory/> and <wsdlDirectory/> are correct.

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This is how you should do it if you have the *.xsd files in another project. Never access other projects with relative paths. Each project should only access other resources using the dependency mechanism.

Seadon

Thank you! I'm just trying to get through all the relative paths. – Bunyabunya

As per this link - the default location used by maven wsimport plugin is src/wsdl. I infer that .wsdl should not be kept in src/main/resources. jax-ws-commons.java.net/jaxws-maven-plugin/wsimport-mojo.html – Nucleotide

How do you reference the XSDs in the WSDL when you are unpacking to the ${schema.location} directory? How does the WSDL know where to find the XSDs? – Cube