[SOLVED] Generating hashCode() and equals() when creating Java classes using Mojo Jaxb2 maven plugin

Generating hashCode() and equals() when creating Java classes using Mojo Jaxb2 maven plugin

The code I'm working on is using jaxb2-maven-plugin from org.codehaus.mojo to generate Java classes from XSD schema. I'm looking for a way to automatically implement equals() and hashCode() methods for those classes, but it seems there is not a way. I know that there are other JAXB2 Maven plugins that do that (http://confluence.highsource.org/display/J2B/Home for example), but I was wondering if anyone of you encountered this issue before and if there's a way for fixing it. I'm generating the classes using the xjc goal.

Solution

JAXB2 Basics you're mentioning is not a property of maven-jaxb2-plugin, it is a standalone set of JAXB 2.x plugins you can use with XJC - or jaxb2-maven-plugin or whatever.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>xjc</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>xjc</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
           </executions>
           <configuration>
                <arguments>
                     <argument>-Xequals</argument>
                     <argument>-XhashCode</argument>
                </arguments>
           </configuration>
           <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jaxb2-basics</artifactId>
                    <version>0.12.0</version>
                </dependency>
           </dependencies>
       </plugin>

What I wanted to ask - why not just use maven-jaxb2-plugin? It has so much more functionality compared to the Codehaus plugin - including configuration support for JAXB2 plugins.