how to make cxf-xjc-plugin generate sources in utf-8

Question

I try to generate java classes from xsd in a maven project using cxf-xjc-plugin.

It runs fine, but the generated source files get platform specific encoding (cp1251

Answer 1

I could make cxf-xjc-plugin generate sources in UTF-8 by adding the following entry to the xsdOption element:

<extensionArgs>
    <arg>-encoding</arg>
    <arg>UTF-8</arg>
</extensionArgs>