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Re: maven-jaxb2-plugin

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 11:55:29 -0700

Aleksei Valikov wrote on 05/05/12 15:02:
> Hi,
>
>>> Anyone know about the maven-jaxb2-plugin?
>>> http://java.net/projects/maven-jaxb2-plugin/pages/Home
>>> Who created it?
>
> I am the author.
>
>>> It seems that all the real documentation is on a site that's down:
>>> http://confluence.highsource.org/display/MJIIP
>>> Why isn't it on java.net?
>
> java.net does not provide Confluence and did not provide JIRA back
> then, when I started the project.
> As I was not satisfied with the CollabNet stack java.net was running
> back then, I've established my own source forge with JIRA, Confluence
> and Hudson.
> Since Kenai, java.net does have a sensible issue tracker, but Wiki
> still feels a bit outdated (no RichtWYSIWYG editing in 2012?).
>
> My mistake was that I have underestimated maintenance. The Tomcat
> which runs my JIRA and Confluence lies down regularly and I lack the
> resources to do anything about it. I just start it from time to time -
> either when I notice that the server is down, or if someone complains.
>
> Bye,
> /lexi

I guess you now understand the reason to suffer with the poor wiki
on java.net - when it goes down it's someone else's problem! :-)

Thanks for restarting the server.

Does anyone know if there are other JAXB plugins for Maven?
Or is this the best/only one?