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[Solved] JAXBException: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath.

5 Jun 2021 Saurabh Gupta 1 Comment javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath. - with linked exception: [java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory] at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:278) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:421) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:721) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:662) at com.facingIssuesOnIT.domain.EmployeeJAXBTest.marshal(EmployeeJAXBTest.java:23) at com.facingIssuesOnIT.domain.EmployeeJAXBTest.main(EmployeeJAXBTest.java:15) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) at javax.xml.bind.ServiceLoaderUtil.nullSafeLoadClass(ServiceLoaderUtil.java:122) at javax.xml.bind.ServiceLoaderUtil.safeLoadClass(ServiceLoaderUtil.java:155) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:276) ... 5 more

Solutions

To implement JAXB marshalling and unmarshalling in your application, you need to add following dependencies in you code. As above exception message explained “J AXB-API has not found in module or class path ” this exception occurred when you forget to add JAXB-API dependency.

<dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId> <version>2.3.0.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.javassist</groupId> <artifactId>javassist</artifactId> <version>3.25.0-GA</version> </dependency>

Conclusion

In this post , You learn about the JAXBException cases to occurred, different constructors and example to solve J AXB-API has not found in module or class path ” JAXBException.

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