Java migration in package-info.java files are not working

[Pumu3]

What version of OpenRewrite are you using?

I am using

• Apache Maven 3.9.10
• rewrite-maven-plugin 6.34.0
• rewrite-migrate-java 3.30.1

How are you running OpenRewrite?

I am using the Maven plugin, and my project is a single module project.

<plugin>
      <groupId>org.openrewrite.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>rewrite-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>6.34.0</version>
      <configuration>
        <exportDatatables>true</exportDatatables>
        <activeRecipes>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JakartaEE10</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxXmlBindMigrationToJakartaXmlBind</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.OrderImports</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.RemoveUnusedImports</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.BlankLines</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.AutoFormat</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.EmptyNewlineAtEndOfFile</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeLineBreaks</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeFormat</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeTabsOrSpaces</recipe>
          <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.format.WrappingAndBraces</recipe>
        </activeRecipes>
      </configuration>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.openrewrite.recipe</groupId>
          <artifactId>rewrite-migrate-java</artifactId>
          <version>3.30.1</version>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <phase>generate-sources</phase>
          <goals>
            <goal>runNoFork</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>

What is the smallest, simplest way to reproduce the problem?

mvn compile

What did you expect to see?

Change all package-info.java where we have "javax" to "jakarta" references

@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://XXXXX")
package net.bizkaia.srwa;

to

@jakarta.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://XXXX")
package net.bizkaia.srwa;

Import changes were apply correctly:

package XXX.XXX.srwa;

import jakarta.xml.bind.annotation.*;
.........
........

What did you see instead?

No applied changes and got errors in compilation phase related with javax references

What is the full stack trace of any errors you encountered?

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] -----------------------< net.bizkaia:SRWAWSSOA >------------------------
[INFO] Building SRWAWSSOA 1.0.0
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- rewrite:6.34.0:runNoFork (default) @ SRWAWSSOA ---
[INFO] Using active recipe(s) [org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JakartaEE10, org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxXmlBindMigrationToJakartaXmlBind, org.openrewrite.java.OrderImports, org.openrewrite.java.RemoveUnusedImports, org.openrewrite.java.format.BlankLines, org.openrewrite.java.format.AutoFormat, org.openrewrite.java.format.EmptyNewlineAtEndOfFile, org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeLineBreaks, org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeFormat, org.openrewrite.java.format.NormalizeTabsOrSpaces, org.openrewrite.java.format.WrappingAndBraces]
[INFO] Using active styles(s) []
[INFO] Validating active recipes...
[INFO] Project [SRWAWSSOA] Resolving Poms...
[INFO] Project [SRWAWSSOA] Parsing source files
[INFO] Running recipe(s)...
[INFO] Printing available datatables to: target/rewrite/datatables/2026-03-19_10-08-39-403
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- resources:3.3.1:resources (default-resources) @ SRWAWSSOA ---
[INFO] Copying 0 resource from src/main/resources to target/classes
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- compiler:3.15.0:compile (default-compile) @ SRWAWSSOA ---
[INFO] Recompiling the module because of changed source code.
[INFO] Compiling 29 source files with javac [debug release 21] to target/classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /home/developer/workspace/src/main/java/XXXX/XXXX/srwa/vo/package-info.java:[1,27] package javax.xml.bind.annotation does not exist
[INFO] 1 error
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  37.983 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2026-03-19T10:08:45Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.15.0:compile (default-compile) on project SRWAWSSOA: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: 
[ERROR] /home/developer/workspace/src/main/java/XXX/XXXX/srwa/vo/package-info.java:[1,27] package javax.xml.bind.annotation does not exist
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

[timtebeek]

hi! I've been trying to replicate this in openrewrite/rewrite#7050, but I'm not having any luck so far. Any additional details or a reproducer project you might have with steps to follow might help, although I'll try a few more variants.

[timtebeek]

Hi! I've been trying to replicate this as well, but the following test passes on the latest main branch — ChangePackage correctly transforms fully-qualified annotations in package-info.java files:

@Issue("https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite-migrate-java/issues/1018")
@Test
void fullyQualifiedAnnotationInPackageInfo() {
    rewriteRun(
      //language=java
      java(
        """
          @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://example.com")
          package com.example;
          """,
        """
          @jakarta.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://example.com")
          package com.example;
          """,
        spec -> spec.path("src/main/java/com/example/package-info.java")
      )
    );
}

This passes with both the JavaxMigrationToJakarta and JakartaEE10 recipes, and regardless of whether type stubs are provided.

Could you share a minimal reproducer project? That would help us pinpoint what's different in your setup. Possible factors could be the specific structure of your package-info.java, the Maven plugin phase (generate-sources), or an interaction with the formatting recipes you have configured.

[timtebeek]

I also tried a standalone Maven reproducer project using the exact versions from the issue (rewrite-maven-plugin 6.34.0, rewrite-migrate-java 3.30.1), and the migration works correctly there too.

pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>reproducer-1018</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <properties>
        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.openrewrite.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>rewrite-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>6.34.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <activeRecipes>
                        <recipe>org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JakartaEE10</recipe>
                    </activeRecipes>
                </configuration>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.openrewrite.recipe</groupId>
                        <artifactId>rewrite-migrate-java</artifactId>
                        <version>3.30.1</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

src/main/java/com/example/vo/package-info.java:

@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://example.com")
package com.example.vo;

Running mvn rewrite:run correctly transforms the package-info.java to:

@jakarta.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(namespace = "http://example.com")
package com.example.vo;

The output confirms ChangePackage made the change:

Changes have been made to src/main/java/com/example/vo/package-info.java by:
    org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxMigrationToJakarta
        org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxXmlBindMigrationToJakartaXmlBind
            org.openrewrite.java.ChangePackage

Could you share a minimal reproducer project? There may be something specific to your project structure or configuration causing this.

[Pumu3]

Hi @timtebeek!
This is the unique files I have in the project:
pom.xml
package-info.java

I've just execute again and still no working.

[timtebeek]

Hi! Likely fixed in

• ChangeType: visit annotations on package declarations rewrite#7086