JDK11 + spring boot = JAXBException: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath

Question

I have a simple spring project based on the official guide to consume a web service. This sample seems to be targeting JDK 8 but I want to use the latest LTS, JDK 11.

I have adapted the pom.xml file and added some dependencies which seem to have been removed from the JDK, namely:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.0.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
            <artifactId>rt</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.activation</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.0</version>
        </dependency>

However, I can't seem to start the application, I always get this error:

➜  spring-test git:(master) mvn spring-boot:run
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
...
org.springframework.ws.soap.client.SoapFaultClientException: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath.
    at org.springframework.ws.soap.client.core.SoapFaultMessageResolver.resolveFault (SoapFaultMessageResolver.java:38)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.handleFault (WebServiceTemplate.java:830)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.doSendAndReceive (WebServiceTemplate.java:624)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.sendAndReceive (WebServiceTemplate.java:555)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive (WebServiceTemplate.java:390)
    at com.example.demo.CountryClient.getCountry (CountryClient.java:21)
    at com.example.demo.DemoApplication.lambda$lookup$0 (DemoApplication.java:24)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.callRunner (SpringApplication.java:781)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.callRunners (SpringApplication.java:765)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run (SpringApplication.java:319)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run (SpringApplication.java:1215)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run (SpringApplication.java:1204)
    at com.example.demo.DemoApplication.main (DemoApplication.java:13)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:566)
    at org.springframework.boot.maven.AbstractRunMojo$LaunchRunner.run (AbstractRunMojo.java:543)
    at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:834)

Although there are at least two questions (this and this) related to this topic, I've tried all combinations of versions that I could find in those posts and I still have the same error.

The specific JDK+maven version I'm using is:

Apache Maven 3.6.2 (40f52333136460af0dc0d7232c0dc0bcf0d9e117; 2019-08-27T16:06:16+01:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.6.2/libexec
Java version: 11.0.4, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.4.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.14.6", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

And the code for my test is here.

Answer 1

Take a look at this answer and check if it may help you. We have a couple of projects using Java 11 with Spring WS and everything is working just fine. Also make sure that your pom.xml is targeting Java 11:

<properties>
    <java.version>11</java.version>
    <spring-cloud.version>Greenwich.SR2</spring-cloud.version>
</properties>

Regarding the missing classes, we had to add the following dependency, and nothing else:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

we must add the following dependence

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
</dependency>

insted :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.0.1</version>
</dependency>

it is a problem for all version of the jdk 11 even on amazone correto