SOAP Webservice client : jaxws-maven-plugin fails to generate the @WebServiceClient class

Question

We are developing a client for a SOAP werbservice using JDK 17 and SpringBoot.

We are using jaxws-maven-plugin as described in https://www.baeldung.com/java-soap-web-… to generate stubs for the SOAP client.

The plugin fails to generate the @WebServiceClient class that can be used to make the SOAP API call.

If we use JDK1.8 which comes packaged with wsimport utility, these classes get generated successfully. But we need to use OpenJDK 17 for project requirements.

How to resolve this issue?

I tried using below piece of code in pom.xml for maven build

<plugin>
      <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
      <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.3.2</version>
      <configuration>
            <args>
                  <arg>-B-XautoNameResolution</arg>
            </args>
            <wsdlUrls>
                  <wsdlUrl>----/?wsdl</wsdlUrl>
            </wsdlUrls>
            <keep>true</keep>
            <packageName>com.....</packageName>
            <sourceDestDir>src/main/java</sourceDestDir>
      </configuration>
</plugin>

but the client class with annotation @WebServiceClient is not getting generated. Rest of the bean classes are generated.