Whenever I try to deploy a JAX-WS web service on Tomcat 8, I get the the following error:
4-Mar-2015 10:35:35.730 SEVERE [http-nio-8085-exec-5] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletException: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration cannot be cast to org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WSServletContextListener.java:139)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5184)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:724)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:714)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:581)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:455)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1496)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
Even with the error, I am able to deploy the web-service 20% of the time, but most of the time it will just fail to deploy.
UPDATE
As suggested in the comments, I'm listing the contents of WEB-INF\lib:
03/09/2015 08:53 AM 62,983 activation-1.1.jar
03/10/2015 04:43 PM 4,467 aopalliance-1.0.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 63,966 avalon-framework-4.1.3.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 21,007 commonj.sdo-2.1.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 232,019 commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 284,184 commons-codec-1.10.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 34,827 commons-csv-1.0.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 160,519 commons-dbcp-1.4.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 185,140 commons-io-2.4.jar
03/10/2015 04:43 PM 284,220 commons-lang-2.6.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 412,739 commons-lang3-3.3.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 52,915 commons-logging-1.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 96,221 commons-pool-1.5.4.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 8,613,667 eclipselink-2.5.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 206,853 gson-2.3.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 31,245 gt-epsg-extension-11.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 1,960,275 gt-epsg-hsql-11.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 505,719 gt-metadata-11.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 345,672 gt-opengis-11.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 1,143,704 gt-referencing-11.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 1,395,415 hsqldb-2.2.8.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 590,533 httpclient-4.3.5.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 282,269 httpcore-4.3.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 38,605 jackson-annotations-2.4.0.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 225,316 jackson-core-2.4.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 1,075,759 jackson-databind-2.4.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 1,900,631 jai_core-1.1.3.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 2,497 javax.inject-1.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 162,126 javax.persistence-2.1.0.jar
03/24/2015 03:59 PM 102,528 jaxb-api-2.2.12-b141001.1542.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 854,901 jaxb-impl-2.1.7.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 144,283 jaxb2-basics-runtime-0.9.1.jar
03/09/2015 08:53 AM 33,428 jaxws-api-2.1.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 1,284,131 jaxws-rt-2.1.4.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 16,458 jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 11,497 jgridshift-1.0.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 586,201 joda-time-2.4.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 54,203 json-smart-1.2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 91,347 jsr-275-1.0-beta-2.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 710,293 jts-1.11.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 121,658 junit-3.8.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 489,884 log4j-1.2.17.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 72,150 logkit-1.0.1.jar
03/09/2015 09:46 AM 388,864 mail-1.4.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 38,665 mimepull-1.2.jar
03/25/2015 10:33 AM 429,408 mojo-MojoGlobal-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
03/20/2015 11:43 AM 75,239 MojoAlerts-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
03/25/2015 10:33 AM 757,460 MojoInterfaces-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
03/25/2015 10:33 AM 571,604 MojoSimulation-1.0.jar
03/24/2015 02:03 PM 3,389,454 ojdbc6-6.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 2,097,954 PDFRenderer-0.9.0.jar
03/09/2015 08:53 AM 68,177 resolver-20050927.jar
03/09/2015 08:53 AM 18,817 saaj-api-1.3.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 278,293 saaj-impl-1.3.1.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 332,055 sjsxp-1.0.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:53 AM 26,065 slf4j-api-1.7.1.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 8,867 slf4j-log4j12-1.7.9.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 337,694 spring-aop-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 612,569 spring-beans-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 866,273 spring-context-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 873,608 spring-core-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 383,327 spring-data-commons-1.6.1.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 196,367 spring-expression-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:52 AM 405,717 spring-jdbc-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 374,411 spring-ldap-core-2.0.2.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 366,941 spring-security-core-3.2.5.RELEASE.jar
03/16/2015 07:50 AM 242,436 spring-tx-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 26,310 stax-api-1.0.jar
03/09/2015 08:53 AM 11,074 stax-ex-1.2.jar
03/19/2015 03:32 PM 57,984 streambuffer-0.7.jar
03/16/2015 07:48 AM 249,354 vecmath-1.3.2.jar
03/26/2015 08:53 AM 895,924 xercesImpl-2.4.0.jar
UPDATE 2
Changing the xercesImpl version from 2.4.0 to 2.11.0 (most current) seemed to resolve the ClassCastException but it generated the following error:
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load META-INF/services/org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
Mar 26, 2015 11:47:43 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextInitialized
SEVERE: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(WebappClassLoader.java:1542)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SecuritySupport$6.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SecuritySupport.getResourceAsStream(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.findJarServiceProvider(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParser(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.readers.SAXCatalogReader.readCatalog(SAXCatalogReader.java:238)
at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.Catalog.parseCatalog(Catalog.java:687)
at com.sun.xml.ws.util.xml.XmlUtil.createEntityResolver(XmlUtil.java:270)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.DeploymentDescriptorParser.createEntityResolver(DeploymentDescriptorParser.java:402)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.DeploymentDescriptorParser.parseAdapters(DeploymentDescriptorParser.java:253)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.DeploymentDescriptorParser.parse(DeploymentDescriptorParser.java:147)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WSServletContextListener.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5016)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5524)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:649)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:547)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1668)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:301)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:801)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1516)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:912)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:371)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:620)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:613)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:421)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1074)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
From what I could gather, the Illegal access seems to still be related to the xerces dependency
I got two Xerces related errors, so I'm posting my approach to solve each one:
The ClassCastException error was solved by updating to the latest version of xerces:
<dependency>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
<version>2.11.0</version>
</dependency>
As mentioned in the comments, make sure you remove any other Xerces related dependencies and leave just the one above.
To solve the Illegal Access issue, I found this post with a proposed solution to remove the following files from the xerces-Impl.jar
META-INF/service/javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory
META-INF/services/javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory
I realize changing the dependency is a bit of a hack and it may backfire if the file in the local maven repo is deleted and re-downloaded from Maven Central, but that was the best solution I could find.