There are several items in the UML that may cause a converter error. Most likely causes: 1. If you get error similar to this: Location: line 3 of file:/tmp/AirliftEntityXML43632.xml javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: Unexpected end of element {}:entityTypes at airliftj.util.entityModelUMLToXML.jaxb.generated.impl.runtime.SAXUnmarshallerHandlerImpl.handleEvent(SAXUnmarshallerHandlerImpl.java:538) some class in the UML is likely missing the <> tag or <> tag.