'spring webservice Invalid NamespaceHandler problem (jaxws)

I am building a web service with spring. I can build and deploy the project to tomcat but when the server starts up I am getting following error:

Invalid NamespaceHandler class [org.apache.cxf.jaxws.spring.NamespaceHandler] for namespace [http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws]: problem with handler class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/NamespaceHandlerSupport

I have already included the cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws.jar in my classpath.

My bean definition are here:

 <jaxws:endpoint id="helloWebservice"
  implementor="#com.xxx.impl.HelloWebserviceImpl"
  address="/hellows">
 </jaxws:endpoint>

My lib folder contains(WEB-INF/lib):

antlr-2.7.6.jar
asinus-api.jar
asinus-ri.jar
aspectjrt.jar
aspectjweaver.jar
backport-util-concurrent-3.0.jar
cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
commons-beanutils-1.6.jar
commons-codec-1.4.jar
commons-collections-3.2.1.jar
commons-fileupload-1.2.jar
commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
commons-io-1.4.jar
commons-lang-2.4.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
com.springsource.javax.validation-1.0.0.GA.jar
com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-core-1.7.2.jar
ezmorph-1.0.4.jar
freemarker-2.3.15.jar
hibernate3.jar
hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA.jar
javassist.jar
jdom.jar
jpa-api-2.0-cr-1.jar
json-lib-2.2.jar
jta-spec1_0_1.jar
lib.txt
log4j-1.2.15.jar
memcached-2.4.2.jar
org.springframework.aop-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.asm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.aspects-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.beans-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context.support-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.core-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.expression-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.orm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.test-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.transaction-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.web-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
owasp.jar
quartz-1.7.3.jar
rome-1.0.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
spring-modules-cache.jar

and my external jars:

cxf-2.2.5.jar
geronimo-activation_1.1_spec-1.0.2.jar
geronimo-jaxws_2.1_spec-1.0.jar
geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec-1.1.2.jar
jaxb-api-2.1.jar
jaxb-impl-2.1.12.jar
neethi-2.0.4.jar
saaj-api-1.3.jar
saaj-impl-1.3.2.jar
stax-api-1.0.1.jar
wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar
wss4j-1.5.8.jar
wstx-asl-3.2.9.jar
xml-resolver-1.2.jar
XmlSchema-1.4.5.jar
xmlsec-1.4.3.jar
WEB-INF/lib/cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws.jar

Solution 1:^[1]

It appears that either you are missing a spring jar, or you have an older version of it. Try to get the latest spring-beans.jar on the classpath. Also make sure there isn't another such jar on the classpath that's older.

Solution 2:^[2]

So, I have stumbled on this error too, and it really got on my nerves. So, without further due

environment:

Wildfly 20.0.1.Final

Java 11

objectives:

I just want to add cxf so that I could use cxf - spring descriptors (in particular jaxws:endpoint) in my applicationContext.xml, i.e

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd">
    <!-- one or more jaxws:endpoint POJO declarations -->
    <jaxws:endpoint id="POJOEndpoint" address="/test" implementor="com.test.myRandomPojoEndpoint">
        <jaxws:invoker>
            <bean class="org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.InvokerJSE"/>
        </jaxws:invoker>
    </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>

issue:

but all I get is

Invalid NamespaceHandler class [org.apache.cxf.jaxws.spring.NamespaceHandler] for namespace [http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws]: problem with handler class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/NamespaceHandlerSupport

Solution:

before you begin you SHOULD KNOW that for this stuff to work you have to INSTALL SPRING LIBRARIES to your wildfly application server and so...

The list of spring libraries in my wildfly environment:

spring-aop-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-jcl-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-tx-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar

Installation path is as follows

wildfly-20.0.1.Final\modules\system\layers\base\org\springframework\spring\main

just put spring libraries in this path and add module.txt (that same folder as spring libraries) as follows

module.txt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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  ~ as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the
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  -->
<module name="org.springframework.spring" xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.6">

    <resources>
        <resource-root path="spring-aop-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-beans-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-context-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-core-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-expression-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-jcl-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-tx-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <resource-root path="spring-web-5.2.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
    </resources>
    <dependencies>
        <module name="org.reactivestreams" />
            <module name="org.apache.commons.logging" />
            <module name="javaee.api"/>
            <module name="javax.api" export="true" />
            <module name="javax.servlet.api" />
            <module name="org.jboss.vfs" />
    </dependencies>
</module>

======THE END==========

NOTES:

So, if that is so simple why did I fail? WHY?

At first I installed spring libraries in

wildfly-20.0.1.Final\modules\system\layers\base\org\spring\main

and that cause a lot of misery, because

if you looked at wildfly-20.0.1.Final\modules\system\layers\base\org\apache\cxf\impl\main\module.xml, you would see that it has a dependency on spring, i.e

    <module name="org.springframework.spring" optional="true">
        <imports>
            <include path="META-INF"/>
        </imports>
    </module>

however, I installed spring libraries under different name which was org.spring and not org.springframework.spring, so that was the root of my failure.

my jboss-deployment-structure.xml (in WEB-INF folder) is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <deployment>
        <dependencies>
            <module name="org.springframework.spring">
                <imports>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </imports>
                <exports>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </exports>
            </module>
            <module name="org.apache.cxf">
                <imports>
                    <include path="META-INF/cxf"/>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </imports>
                <exports>
                    <include path="META-INF/cxf"/>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </exports>
            </module>
            <module name="org.apache.cxf.impl">
                <imports>
                    <include path="META-INF/cxf"/>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </imports>
                <exports>
                    <include path="META-INF/cxf"/>
                    <include path="META-INF"/>
                </exports>
            </module>
        </dependencies>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

Related threads (to name a few)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44033999/jboss-eap-7-exclude-webservices-subsystem-gives-noclassdeffounderror-failed-to

http://www.mastertheboss.com/javaee/jboss-web-services/using-spring-cxf-descriptors-in-wildfly

http://www.mastertheboss.com/javaee/jboss-web-services/using-spring-cxf-descriptors-in-wildfly

https://cxf.apache.org/docs/embedding-cxf-inside-spring.html

Hope it helps other lost souls.

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