Use jaxb:class and annox:annotate together in jaxb2-maven-plugin?

Question

When I use jxb:class with annox:annotate, I get this exception:

com.sun.istack.SAXParseException2; systemId: file:/usr/workspace/project/package/file.xjb; lineNumber: 16; columnNumber: 35; the compiler failed to honor this customization annox: annotate. He was attached to an incorrect location or is inconsistent with other binds.
    at com.sun.tools.xjc.ErrorReceiver.error(ErrorReceiver.java:86)
    at com.sun.tools.xjc.model.Model.generateCode(Model.java:310)
    at com.sun.tools.xjc.Driver.run(Driver.java:363)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.jaxb2.AbstractXjcMojo.execute(AbstractXjcMojo.java:316)
    at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:133)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:108)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:76)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:116)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:361)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:155)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:584)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:213)

I used this configuration:

<jxb:bindings node="xs:complexType[@name='MyType']//xs:element[@name='property']">
    <jxb:class ref="org.project.model.MyType" />
</jxb:bindings>

Answer 1

EDIT: I might have been wrong about my interpretation. I'll still leave the answer until we've got it cleared.

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Author of maven-jaxb2-plugin and annox here.

It is quite obvious that it won't work.

This:

<jxb:class ref="org.project.model.MyType" />

Instructs JAXB to use a presumably existing class org.project.model.MyType instead of generating a new on. So there's no class generated, so jaxb2-annotate-plugin has nothing to add annotations to.

I hope it is clear, why you can't add annotations to the already existing classes. :) That would be too much to ask. You can only add annotations to the generated classes.