Maven JAXB Generation Part II

I've already done a posting on using Maven to generate JAXB with the Fluent API and this adds making the JAXB beans serializable and setters for lists. Add the file jaxb-bindings.xjb to the 'src/main/resources' with the config below and JAXB beans will implement serializable.

Also by default, collections only have getters. The JAXB 2.1 Collection setter Injector Plugin will also generate a setter for any collection. I found this useful while serializing JAXB beans between Java and ActionScript with BlazeDS (while using Spring BlazeDS Integration. BlazeDS only serializes something if it has a getter and a setter. Unfortunately I couldn't find this in a Maven repo, but you can install it locally or into your Nexus server.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <extension>true</extension>
        <args>
            <arg>-Xfluent-api</arg>
            <arg>-Xcollection-setter-injector</arg>
        </args>
        <schemaDirectory>src/main/resources</schemaDirectory>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>net.java.dev.jaxb2-commons</groupId>
                <artifactId>jaxb-fluent-api</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.8</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- Had to manually install in repo, not in main java.net repo. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2-commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>collection-setter-injector</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

src/main/resources/jaxb-bindings.xjb
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jxb:bindings xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
              xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
              version="1.0">

  <jxb:bindings>
      <jxb:globalBindings>
          <jxb:serializable/>
      </jxb:globalBindings>
  </jxb:bindings>
 
</jxb:bindings>