--add-modules only on compilation

Question

I'm building my project with maven and java-9. I've added in my pom.xml file:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <source>${java.version}</source>
        <target>${java.version}</target>
        <compilerArgs>
            <arg>--add-modules</arg>
            <arg>java.xml.bind</arg>
        </compilerArgs>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

But still, to run the application I have to run it like this:

java -jar --add-modules java.xml.bind my-app.jar

Is there a way to build the application, to run from the command line without --add-modules java.xml.bind to java command line arguments?

Answer 1

I made this answer a while ago where I answered this as an additional info to exposing non java.se packages in Java-9 using Maven.

The added part specifically focusses on using the standalone version of the java.xml.* APIs. To adapt to which you can probably start consuming the dependency on jaxb-api:2.3.0 which can be loaded as a module and can be executed from the classpath as well. The change you need to make is to add the following to your dependencies list:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>

This way you ensure migrating to standalone APIs for the module as well as moving away from a deprecated piece of code.