WebService Client Fails to deploy - Metro + Spring - Classloading

[gutierrez.ge]

Hi guys,

I have this webservice with Metro and Spring that consumes another WebService, but when deploying it into JBoss it fails.

I'm using the following stack of technologies

JBoss Server: jboss4.3CP09/jboss-as

Frameworks: Spring 2.5.5 + Metro 2.1.7 (jaxws-rt)

This is the error I've been gettin (I'm sumaryzing the most important lines):

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to load Provider: Failed to load javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider: com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider: com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl

        at javax.xml.ws.spi.ProviderLoader.loadProvider(ProviderLoader.java:96)

        at javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider.provider(Provider.java:90)

        ... 171 more

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Ljavax/xml/bind/JAXBContext;

This is how I'm creating the client with Spring

<bean id="pcWS" class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean">

        <property name="serviceInterface" value="${pc.interfaceName}" />

        <property name="endpointAddress" value="${pc.endpoint}" />

        <property name="wsdlDocumentUrl" value="${pc.wsdl}" />

        <property name="namespaceUri" value="${pc.namespace}" />

        <property name="serviceName" value="${pc.serviceName}" />

</bean>

It is worth mention that I ran into another issue with another set of applications using Spring and CXF hosted under the same jboss installation, where the solution was to remove jaxb-api.jar from ${jboss.lib.url}/lib/endorsed directory and that is working good.

Thanks on advance your comments.

[spyhunter99]

never remove ifles from /lib/endorsed.

most likely that jboss container has an old version of jbossws and just needs to be upgraded.

have you tried turning on class loading isolation?

[gutierrez.ge]

I had to remove it, otherwise it would have never worked.

Class loading isolation has never worked for me, maybe i did it wrong, can you provide me with some details on how to achive it?

[spyhunter99]

You'll want to look at the schema for jboss-web.xml. There are here

https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossDTDs

<class-loading java2ClassLoadingCompliance="false"/>

true = parent first

false = servlet style, i.e. isolating the war/ear from jboss's classloader

[gutierrez.ge]

I read this article: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ClassLoadingConfiguration

And this is what i have in my jboss-web

    <loader-repository>

        com.my.app.packageName:archive=applicationWarFileName.war

        <loader-repository-config>

            java2ParentDelegation=false

        </loader-repository-config>

    </loader-repository>

where:

com.my.app.packageName is my real package name

applicationWarFileName.war is my real war file name

I'm still getting the same error

Regards,

[spyhunter99]

What version and variant of jbossws of installed in this container?

visit http://localhost:8080/jbossws

[gutierrez.ge]

Jboss 4.3 CP09

We end up downgrading to JBoss 4.3 CP05

Thanks all for your comments and suggestions.