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Hi @rohithjayak
Thank you for the contribution. We appreciate the effort you put into the PR. But there are several issues with the PR I have to point out:

• You have removed JDK 17 and older support, but some users are still on 11, so we need to maintain older JDK support
• You upgraded already to JAXB 4 which is Jakarta EE 10, but OpenAM is still on Jakarta EE 9, we have plans to migrate to Jakarta EE 10 in future.
• There is already a PR that migrates to JAXB 3, and I think it has more solid approach, as it restores JAXB classes generation from schema. JAXB3 Migration #1023

Thanks for the work here, @rohithjayak. Adding a couple of notes on top of @maximthomas's review — mainly about CI status and about sequencing the migration.

CI status. The PR is currently red across the whole build matrix (every build-maven job on all OS/JDK combinations, plus CodeQL). The build never reaches compilation — it fails at POM parsing:

[FATAL] Non-parseable POM openam-shared/pom.xml: Unrecognised tag: 'dependency'
(position: START_TAG seen ...</version>\n <dependency>... @163:21) @ line 163, column 21

So openam-shared/pom.xml has a stray <dependency> outside a <dependencies> block around line 163 — this looks like a leftover from the master merge/conflict resolution (it matches the branch name and the earlier conflict note). Fixing that first would let CI actually build the branch so we can review the real changes.

On sequencing. This PR bundles three large changes at once: the javax.xml.bind → jakarta.xml.bind namespace move, the jump to JAXB 4.x (Jakarta EE 10), and dropping JDK ≤17. That's a lot to validate in a single step, and as Maxim noted OpenAM is still on Jakarta EE 9 and needs to keep JDK 11.

Could we do this more gradually? The natural first step is #1023 (JAXB 3 / Jakarta EE 9): it keeps JDK 11+ support, restores JAXB class generation from schema, and its CI is fully green and mergeable today. Landing #1023 first moves us onto the jakarta.* namespace on a stable footing; the JAXB 4 / Jakarta EE 10 bump (this PR) then becomes a much smaller, isolated follow-up for when the project actually moves to Jakarta EE 10.

Happy to help rebase this on top of #1023 once it's merged.

Hi @maximthomas, @vharseko ,
Thanks a lot for reviewing these changes and providing inputs.
Sorry the dependency tag got missed while resolving the conflict, i have made that change to add one closing dependency tag now and pushed it, could you please check if things are fine?
The dropping of JDK ≤17(i.e., only support JDK 21) was specifically done to make it compatible with our product, let me check on if it is feasible to make it backward compatible as well, If you already know the changes, please let me know i can incorporate it and update it in the PR.
And regarding the PR sequencing, let me check with my team internally and get back...

Thanks,
Rohith Jayakumar