When users do not use Maven to build jOOQ projects (e.g. as suggested in the tutorial), there is currently a NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema.

This particular exception was introduced with #8918. However, other similar exceptions could have been caused before, because we used to use ordinary reflection API to read JAXB API annotations before.

MiniJAXB should be able to work without the JAXB API on the classpath.

The JAXB API ships with the CDDL license. I'm not sure if that license is compatible with ASL 2.0, so I'm not sure whether we can ship the API with the jOOQ ZIP file for convenience.

See also:

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/59690301/521799
• https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/code-generation/codegen-configuration/#comment-4752785628