Using JDK's JAXB without ns2 prefix

Question

After having read all posts about this on Oracle forums, Stackoverflow, java.net I\'m finally posting here. I\'m using JAXB to create XML files but the problem is that it adds t

Answer 1

I had the same problem today. The production machine has Java 6 and when I deployed my application, I was getting the ns2 prefix. This is how I resolved it. Production server has only Java 1.6 patch 21

1. I made sure that I have a package-info.java file in my package where all the classes were generated using Jaxb. I checked it and the @XmlSchema was all auto generated, so I didn't mess with any of that. Don't use namespacemapper, that just confused me.

2. In my pom.xml file, I added jaxb-impl dependency: com.sun.xml.bind jaxb-impl 2.2.5-b04

   and specified source and target as 1.6. Did a maven clean install and package and deployed into production, everything looks good. Next step is to make sure that production machine is upgraded to Java 7. Hope this helps :)