The Main.java class is not JAXB-generated and was there before running the xjc compiler. The generated enum representing movie genre is shown next.

In that post, I solved that problem using JAXB2 Basic Plugins to instruct the JAXB 2 RI xjc binding compiler to create these methods when creating Java classes based on a source XSD file.

Hiding Java method deprecation problems There are plenty of deprecated methods in Java, and there’s nothing stopping you from calling them. Sure, a yellow yield sign might appear in the line-number ...