In a Java Maven project, how do you generate java source files from JSON? For example we have

{
  "firstName": "John",  
  "lastName": "Smith",  
  "address": {  
    "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",  
     "city": "New York"
  }
}

When we run mvn generate-sources we want it to generate something like this:

class Address  {
    JSONObject mInternalJSONObject;
     
    Address (JSONObject json){
        mInternalJSONObject = json;
    }
     
    String  getStreetAddress () {
        return mInternalJSONObject.getString("streetAddress");
    }
    
    String  getCity (){
        return mInternalJSONObject.getString("city");
    }
}

class Person {        
    JSONObject mInternalJSONObject;
    
    Person (JSONObject json){
        mInternalJSONObject = json;
    }
    
    String  getFirstName () {
        return mInternalJSONObject.getString("firstName");
    }
    
    String  getLastName (){
        return mInternalJSONObject.getString("lastName");
    }
    
    Address getAddress (){
        return Address(mInternalJSONObject.getString("address"));
    }
}

As a Java developer, what lines of XML do I need to write in my pom.xml in order to make this happen?

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