As far as I remember, the element must only ever appear as root element to
qualify as root element. If it ever appears as child to some other element
it can no longer get such annotation. I think I found that while reading
Kohsuke's posts in the archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160117210900/
hi. Im cleaning up some old projects and I seem to have an issue with the
jaxws-maven-plugin.
To produce working code the wsimport goal must be followed by
maven-jaxb2-plugin with forceRegenerate=true.
It seems jaxws-maven-plugin can't annotate classes with @XmlRootElement and
that's why maven-jaxb
