Is there a way to strip annotations when using the cxf-codegen-plugin for generating sources?

Question

I'm using the cxf-codegen-plugin to generate some classes from a WSDL. After the sources are generated, a bunch of beans get deleted (we don't need them, just the service interfaces), but there is an @XmlSeeAlso annotation in the generated source that references some of these deleted classes. We don't need the @XmlSeeAlso annotation at all, is there a way to tell the cxf-codegen-plugin to exclude certain annotations when generating sources?

Answer 1

I solved this by adding a tag to a maven-antrun-plugin, commenting out all the @XmlSeeAlso instances:

<target>
    <replace file="${basedir}/target/generated-sources/x/x/x/Service.java" token="@XmlSeeAlso" value="//@XmlSeeAlso" />
</target>

Answer 2

The idea of generated code is to let it be as it is. The question is why would you like to delete files which i assume is manual work which is in contradiction to the idea of generated code.