wsimport fail with maven - web-services

Question

I'm trying to create an ssl webservice client using maven and netbeans(7.2).
The webservice is perfectly working and I test it using an ant project.
When I try to build the project and generate webservice stubs I get this error:
Failed to execute goal org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons:jaxws-maven-plugin:2.2:wsimport (wsimport-generate-test_project_ws_v1) on project mavenproject3: Error executing: wsimport [-keep, -s, C:\Users\no_name\Documents\NetBeansProjects\mavenproject3\target\generated-sources\jaxws-wsimport, -verbose, -encoding, UTF-8, -extension, -Xnocompile, -catalog, C:\Users\no_name\Documents\NetBeansProjects\mavenproject3\src\jax-ws-catalog.xml, -wsdllocation, https://localhost:8181/test_project_ws_v1/test_project_ws_v1?wsdl, file:/C:/Users/no_name/Documents/NetBeansProjects/mavenproject3/src/wsdl/localhost_8181/test_project_ws_v1/test_project_ws_v1.wsdl]: UndeclaredThrowableException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementRef.required() -> [Help 1]
This is my pom (generated by netbeans)
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.procc</groupId>
<artifactId>mavenproject3</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>mavenproject3</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
<directory>src</directory>
<includes>
<include>jax-ws-catalog.xml</include>
<include>wsdl/**</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>wsimport</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile>localhost_8181/test_project_ws_v1/test_project_ws_v1.wsdl</wsdlFile>
</wsdlFiles>
<wsdlLocation>https://localhost:8181/test_project_ws_v1/test_project_ws_v1?wsdl</wsdlLocation>
<staleFile>${project.build.directory}/jaxws/stale/test_project_ws_v1.stale</staleFile>
</configuration>
<id>wsimport-generate-test_project_ws_v1</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices-api</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<sourceDestDir>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/jaxws-wsimport</sourceDestDir>
<xnocompile>true</xnocompile>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<extension>true</extension>
<catalog>${basedir}/src/jax-ws-catalog.xml</catalog>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices-rt</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Thanks.

Answer 1

I was having the same error recently.
It seems that it happens because wsimport messes with 2.1 and 2.2 versions of jaxb.
I was able to generate the Web Services sources correctly by editing the project pom.xml and adding a <target>2.1</target> tag to the configuration of each imported wsdl, like this:
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>wsimport</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile>path/to/file.wsdl</wsdlFile>
</wsdlFiles>
<wsdlLocation>http://path/to/webservice?wsdl</wsdlLocation>
<staleFile>path/to/file.stale</staleFile>
<target>2.1</target>
</configuration>
<id>wsimport-generate-WebServiceName</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
</execution>
Hope it helps whoever is having this issue.

Answer 2

We had a similar issue. When doing a wsimport we got a command line error stating -encoding was an invalid parameter.
Looking in the POM, and the plugin section for jaxws-maven-plugin the following dependency existed:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-tools</artifactId>
<version>2.2.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Removing this fixed the issue. We were also using version 2.3 of jaxws-maven-plugin

Answer 3

I could build on one machine but not another - the issue was caused by environment variables
Check your maven environment variables, M2 and M2_HOME
M2_HOME - "<Apache-maven-root-directory>" e.g. ("C:\Tools\apach-maven")
M2 - "%M2_HOME%\bin" (For windows machine)