found the problem:
CXF pom makes the project use jaxb-impl version 2.1.0.
Without CXF the project uses the JDK default which was 2.1.10 in my case.
see:
http://jaxb.java.net/guide/Which_JAXB_RI_is_included_in_which_JDK_.html
I added the following under dependency management to fix the problem
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.5</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
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