jaxb - How to configure IntelliJ IDEA and/or Maven to automatically add directories with Java source code generated using jaxb2-maven-plugin?

Question

In our project we are using jaxb2-maven-plugin to generate Java source code from XML Schema, which causes that our Maven module requires additional source code directory (in our case target/generated/main/java). Up to date I've been using Eclipse and maven-eclipse-plugin to import all the projects into Eclipse workspace. The plugin is (somehow) able to add the directory with generated source code automatically to Eclipse' .classpath file.

Recently I try to switch to (play with?) IntelliJ IDEA 9 (so I am a newbie in this environment) and I've noticed that additional source directory is not added during IDEA's importing process...

Is there any way I can configure IDEA/Maven to make importing directory with generated source code automatically?

Answer 1

The convention with Maven is to generate code in target/generated-sources/<tool>, for example target/generated-sources/jaxb2

Follow this convention and IDEA will add the folder as source folder (see IDEA-53198).