Annotation @XmlRootElement is not present on generate JAXB class

When Artix 5.5  JAX-WS generates a Java class for an element with an in-line type definition, the class is decorated with the @XmlRootElement annotation. The schema definition in example 1 will generate a myElement class that contains the @XmlRootElement annotation.

example 1:

<schema>
  <element name="myElement">
    <complexType>
      ...
    </complexType>
  </element>
</schema>

However example 2 (below) will NOT generate a myElement class that contains the @XmlRootElement annotation.

Example 2:

<schema>
  <element name="myElement" type="MyComplexType" />
  <complexType name="MyComplexType">
     ...
  </complexType>
</schema>

 

Modifying the schema definition to an in-line type definition will generate an element class that contains @XmlRootElement annotation. However it is possible to unmarshal the element defined in example 2, from an XML string to JAXB object using the following code:

import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

 ...

InputStream is = ... // set to valid XML string for element myElement

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(MyComplexType.class);

JAXBElement<MyComplexType> root = u.unmarshal(new StreamSource(is),MyComplexType.class);