JAXB2 in Plugin

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I’m starting to develop an analyzer Plugin for an XML based language, XSD is present.
Currently, I’ve got a basic plugin boilerplate and ran my XSD through xjc.
The Plugin is loaded and shows up fine in my local SQ instance. JAR looks fine to me.

However, JAXBContext creation fails when I feed it some code using sonar-scanner.

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 my.plugin.detection.parsing.jaxb2.JAXB2Sensor.execute(JAXB2Sensor.java:62)
	at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.AbstractSensorWrapper.analyse(AbstractSensorWrapper.java:48)
	at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:85)
	at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.lambda$execute$1(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:59)
	at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.withModuleStrategy(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:77)
	at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:59)
	at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:82)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
	at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:400)
	at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:395)
	at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:358)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
	at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.doAfterStart(GlobalContainer.java:141)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
	at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.doExecute(Batch.java:73)
	at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:67)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.batch.BatchIsolatedLauncher.execute(BatchIsolatedLauncher.java:46)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedLauncherProxy.invoke(IsolatedLauncherProxy.java:60)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.execute(Unknown Source)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.doExecute(EmbeddedScanner.java:189)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.execute(EmbeddedScanner.java:138)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:112)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:75)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.main(Main.java:61)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory
	at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
	at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedClassloader.loadClass(IsolatedClassloader.java:82)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	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)
	... 34 more

POM is just a basic SQ plugin plus JAXB dependencies:

    <jaxb.api.version>2.3.1</jaxb.api.version>

    <!-- JAXB deps -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
        <version>${jaxb.api.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
        <version>${jaxb.api.version}</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

I cannot make sense of this at all. To understand better, I compiled an example at https://github.com/ldericher/jaxb_experiment, and that one works just fine.

We didn’t find any solution for this in communitybsl plugin also and was forced to rewrite (de)serialization logic to jackson.

If anyone knows what’s wrong with jaxb in sonar, please leave a note.

I’ḿ having exactly the same issue.
It has to do JAXB libs comming from different classloaders (api loaded from sonar-server, and impl loaded from the plugin).
The problem (and a solution) is described here https://javaee.github.io/jaxb-v2/doc/user-guide/ch06.html
In my case that specific method doesn’t suit my needs, so i have to find another way.
Hope you are luckier.
Regards,
Carlos Silva