Hi Peter,
The CXF 3.4.4 is still using javax. package instead of the jakarta.jws
package
And you need to ensure you have
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.jws</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.jws-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0</version>
</dependency>
in your project's dependencies chain.
Cheers
Freeman
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:33 AM Peter van der Post <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m in the process of upgrading an application from Java 8 to 11, because
> it requires Apache Wicket 9.
> Application (libraries) uses Apache CXF 3.4.4
>
> WebService classes are generated from WSDL and are based on
> jakarta.jws.WebService.
> Web service client classes are instantiated with Spring using the
> org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean class. This throws an exception:
>
> org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property
> 'serviceClass' threw exception; nested exception is
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/jws/WebService
>
> Based on the 3.4.4 notes on Java 11 support I had expected that the
> JaxWsProxyFactoryBean class would lean on jakarta.jws.WebService instead of
> javax.jws.WebService. This does not seem to be the case given the error
> message.
>
> What am I missing here? What should be my next step?
>
> thanks for your time,
> Peter
