This plugin runs the JAX-WS wsimport compiler from Maven.
<project>
...
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
<version>2.2.10</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<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>
<!-- The name of your generated source package -->
<packageName>com.example.myservice</packageName>
</configuration>
<!-- if you want to use a specific version of JAX-WS, you can do so like this -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-tools</artifactId>
<version>2.2.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<!-- Don't forget to use endorsed with JAX-WS 2.2 on Java 6 !! -->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<compilerArguments>
<endorseddirs>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorseddirs>
</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</outputDirectory>
<silent>true</silent>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.7</version>
<type>jar</type>
</artifactItem>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>javax.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.9</version>
<type>jar</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>