IllegalAnnotationException in Jaxb context

[alexmarshall]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with JAXB. Our company integrates with one of our partners which uses a Ruby on Rails application with a RESTful web interface. I wrote an interface for our system that uses JAXB to un/marshal requests from / to their system. I got the code compiling, running and tested, and right before I'm about to deploy the new version of our system, I find that maven can't compile the code (hadn't tried to package everything up with maven with the new code before now) and any time I try to run the application, I get errors saying that my class is abstract. This is the class.

package com.mypackage.schema;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementRef;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "Cheque", propOrder = {
    "batchNo",
    "chequeNo",
    "clearDate",
    "id",
    "memo",
    "notes",
    "payeeCity",
    "payeeCountry",
    "payeeFirst",
    "payeeLast",
    "payeePostal",
    "payeeRegion",
    "payeeStreet",
    "payment",
    "printDate",
    "state",
    "stopReason",
    "userId",
    "userNotes",
    "voidDate",
    "reference1",
    "reference2",
    "reference3",
    "reference4"
})
public class Cheque {

    @XmlElement(name = "batch-no", required = true)
    protected String batchNo;
    @XmlElementRef(name = "cheque-no", type = JAXBElement.class)
    protected JAXBElement<Integer> chequeNo;
    @XmlElementRef(name = "clear-date", type = JAXBElement.class)
    protected JAXBElement<XMLGregorianCalendar> clearDate;
    protected Integer id;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    protected String memo;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    protected String notes;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-city", required = true)
    protected String payeeCity;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-country", required = true)
    protected String payeeCountry;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-first", required = true)
    protected String payeeFirst;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-last", required = true)
    protected String payeeLast;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-postal", required = true)
    protected String payeePostal;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-region", required = true, nillable = true)
    protected String payeeRegion;
    @XmlElement(name = "payee-street", required = true)
    protected String payeeStreet;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    protected BigDecimal payment;
    @XmlElementRef(name = "print-date", type = JAXBElement.class)
    protected JAXBElement<XMLGregorianCalendar> printDate;
    protected Integer state;
    @XmlElement(name = "stop-reason", required = true, nillable = true)
    protected String stopReason = "";
    @XmlElement(name = "user-id")
    protected Integer userId;
    @XmlElement(name = "user-notes", required = true, nillable = true)
    protected String userNotes = "";
    @XmlElementRef(name = "void-date", type = JAXBElement.class)
    protected JAXBElement<XMLGregorianCalendar> voidDate;
    protected String reference1;
    protected String reference2;
    protected String reference3;
    protected String reference4;

    //Property Accessors omitted for clarity
}

The error I get when trying to compile with Maven2 is :

[INFO] Compilation failure

I:\Documents and Settings\Alex\workspace\myproject\src\main\java\com\mypackage\schema\ObjectFactory.java:[55,15] com.mypackage.schema.Cheque is abstract; cannot be instantiated

I:\Documents and Settings\Alex\workspace\myproject\src\main\java\com\myotherpackage\processors\impl\AmpChequeProcessorImpl.java:[233,19] com.mypackage.schema.Cheque is abstract;
cannot be instantiated

Has anybody seen or heard of anything like this before ? It's got me stumped and I've already pulled my hair out and destroyed several mice. I cannot find any explanation for why this could be happening. Any help is truly appreciated.

[alexmarshall]

PS This is all happening the the Spring WS Jaxb2Marshaller

[alexmarshall]

Nm, I found the problem. Bottom line : watch where you put XSDs that you don't want compiled when you've got an XmlBeans plugin in your build cycle.