Wsimport on OSX -> NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/xml/internal/ws/util/localization/LocalizableMessageFactory

Question

On OSX with Java 8, if I call the command

wsimport

I get the following error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/xml/internal/ws/util/localization/LocalizableMessageFactory
    at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.resources.WscompileMessages.<clinit>(WscompileMessages.java:40)
    at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsimportOptions.validate(WsimportOptions.java:263)
    at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsimportTool.run(WsimportTool.java:159)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
    at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.Invoker.invoke(Invoker.java:120)
    at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.WsImport.main(WsImport.java:42)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.internal.ws.util.localization.LocalizableMessageFactory
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 9 more

If I try the command to check the version:

wsimport -version

it throws no error and shows me the version:

JAX-WS RI 2.2.4-b01

Is this any known error or is there any fix/workaround?

Answer 1

I switched back to java version 6 and then it worked fine.