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accessExternalDTD property ignoring catalog file

When running mvn clean install I get the following error that the external files can't be reached. 

schema_reference: Failed to read schema document 'xml.xsd', because 'http' access is not allowed due to restriction set by the accessExternalSchema property.

This behaviour is as intended as I want my resources to be local. But shouldn't the catalog change avoid this error? Or is there something wrong with my config?

Parts of the pom file: 

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.6</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>xjc</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>xjc</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <catalog>${project.basedir}/catalog.xml</catalog>
        <schemaDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/</schemaDirectory>
        <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/java</outputDirectory>
        <clearOutputDir>false</clearOutputDir>
    </configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>set-additional-system-properties</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>set-system-properties</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <properties>
            <property>
                <name>javax.xml.accessExternalSchema</name>
                <value>file</value>
            </property>
            <property>
                <name>javax.xml.accessExternalDTD</name>
                <value>file</value>
            </property>
        </properties>
        <outputFile/>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Catalog file:

<!DOCTYPE catalog 
    PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
    <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" rewritePrefix="www.w3.org"/>
</catalog>
Solution

  • After a whole lot of experimenting I found out that mye catalog was wrong. The use of 

    <property>
    <name>javax.xml.accessExternalSchema</name>
    <value>file</value>
</property>
<property>
    <name>javax.xml.accessExternalDTD</name>
    <value>file</value>
</property>

    was dropped and I changed my catalog to catalog.cat file, form catalog.xml, to this:

    REWRITE_SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org" "www.w3.org"
REWRITE_SYSTEM "http://docs.oasis-open.org" "docs.oasis-open.org"
REWRITE_URI "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsn"  "docs.oasis-open.org/wsn"
REWRITE_URI "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrf"  "docs.oasis-open.org/wsrf"

    The properties mentioned above does work with this catalog, but I droped it since with a working catalog, maven does not fetch any external schemas as long as the path in the catalog is correct. Making the properties obsolete.