XJC re-use classes across ant tasks

Question

I am exploring options to use same classes across two different ant tasks. In the first task, I am already building the jar & deleting the generated classes. Xjc does not allow passing a jar as a parameter for reference. One option that I currently did is regenerate the episode file only from the xsd and construct another jar. Is there any better approach?

Answer 1

Please see this post:

http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/12/reusing-generated-jaxb-classes.html

The right way to do this:

• Use -episode to generate the episode file on your first schema
• Use the generated episode JAR during the second compilation
• (In some cases) remove the leftovers

So episodes are definitely the way to go. I don't quite understand what do you mean by "Xjc do not allow to pass jar as parameter for reference".