Is there a JAXB Plugin which generates Builders?

Question

Are you aware of any good JAXB Plugin which generated Builder pattern classes for the generated JAXB classes? Composing domain using JAXB generated classes is really nasty. I s

Answer 1

Yes, there is now a plugin to generate fluent builders for JAXB-generated classes. There is a github project on

https://github.com/mklemm/jaxb2-rich-contract-plugin

It contains a couple of useful JAXB plugins. You can download source and binaries from github, or get maven artifacts from The Central Repository

Hope this helps. If you have any questions, just ask me, I'm the one who started it.