Nope. In fact the module containing JAXB (and 5 other EE technologies) have been deprecated and will be removed in Java 11. So indeed, you can use the `--add-modules java.xml.bind` workaround, but it will break with Java 11. The real solution is to add a JAXB implementation of your choice as dependency to the application.

(disclaimer: I'm author of the O'Reilly book Java 9 Modularity (see https://javamodularity.com) which discusses this and other migration issues in great detail)