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NoClassDefFoundError for javax.xml.bind.JAXBException in Java 9 and above

Hi everyone! I'm a beginner Java developer who switched from Java 8 to Java 11 and encountered a problem when running my project. Everything worked fine before, but now I get this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
    at com.example.myapp.MyClass.main(MyClass.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
    ... 1 more

Here is my code (simplified example):

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;