When ever I need to use the JAXB maven plugin, it is always a task to configure the maven pom.xml file to get this tool to run, but usually an answer can be found pretty quickly so its just annoying. Most often I just use javaws and jaxb plugins to import and export web services, but recently I had to export XML schemas for some POJOs for a client, and this was a bit more of a challenge. It seems, from the google search results at least, that Java developers do not export XML schema definitons for POJO's that often.