Proper way to use Spring JAXB Marshaller with Java 9 without defining additional modules

Question

To illustrate my issue, I created a small spring boot sample application. The purpose of the application is to create a Jaxb2Marshaller bean.

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Answer 1

Try adding the following:

    org.glassfish.jaxb
    jaxb-core
    2.3.0


    com.sun.activation
    javax.activation
    1.2.0

jaxb-core contains com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.annotation.AnnotationReader (and seems to be a required dependency of jaxb-runtime, at least in your case), while javax.activation is needed by jaxb-api due to the usage of DataHandler by the latter.

Also, there is no a single bean class, so the marshaller will fail initialization. I've added the following

@XmlRootElement
public class MyBean {
}

and replaced

bean.setContextPath("ch.sahits.game.helloworld");

with

bean.setClassesToBeBound(MyBean.class);

after which the application has started.