How do you invoke schemagen in Java 11?

Question

According to Oracle documentation the schemagen tool is removed from the JDK as part of JEP 320 (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/320). That JEP points to Maven artifacts that now s

Answer 1

Schemagen and xjc shell scripts are only put into binary distribution in ./bin directory.

For build tools there are plugins out there (Maven / Gradle) which does invoke schemagen and xjc APIs, providing user with simple configuration.

Your attempt to invoke com.sun.tools.jxc.SchemaGeneratorFacade manually is also correct, here is similar example for Maven. However you are probably putting 2.3.0 on module path, which has a split package problem. Putting on classpath will resolve the issue for 2.3.0. Next release of JAXB will be JPMS ready and have module descriptors declared. You can try the beta build (2.4.0-b180725.0644), here is a correct set of dependencies:

  org.glassfish.jaxb
  jaxb-runtime 



  org.glassfish.jaxb
  jaxb-xjc 



  org.glassfish.jaxb
  jaxb-jxc