Why is jaxws-maven-plugin ignoring my .WSDL file?

Question

I am using the jaxws-maven-plugin from MojoHaus to generate Java classes from a .WSDL file in my repository following the example here.

pom.xml:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.6</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>wsimport</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
            <wsdlDirectory>resources</wsdlDirectory>
            <wsdlFiles>
                <wsdlFile>my.wsdl</wsdlFile> 
            </wsdlFiles>
            <keep>true</keep>
            <packageName>my.package.name</packageName>
            <sourceDestDir>src</sourceDestDir>
            <extension>true</extension>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

However, when I build the project, I see:

[INFO] --- jaxws-maven-plugin:2.6:wsimport (default) @ MY_PROJECT ---
[INFO] Ignoring: file/path/here/resources/my.wsdl

Why is wsimport ignoring the file I deliberately specified? Note that if I do this the "wrong" way by using the <wsdlUrl> tag instead, the files are generated successfully (although the annotations have absolute file paths referencing my machine, which is why I changed it).

Answer 1

The solution is to edit and save the .WSDL file. wsimport will not generate the classes if the .WSDL file has not changed since the last time it did so.