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maven-jaxws-tools-plugin Error: ClassNotFoundException

Swtiching our build from Ant to Maven, I'm trying to generate code from WSDL files.

There is the maven-jaxws-tools-plugin, but I always get an Exception. I'm not completely clear on what dependencies this plugin additionally has.

The Plugin config:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.jboss.ws.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jaxws-tools-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.1.Final</version>
  <configuration>
    <targetPackage>at.dataphone.logis3.wsdl.${projectName}</targetPackage>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <wsdls>
      <wsdl>${basedir}/wsdl/DPHItemBarcodesList.wsdl</wsdl>
    </wsdls>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
        <goal>wsconsume</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

With no additional deps I get:

ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.ws.api.tools.WSContractConsumer

Then I add:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.ws.native</groupId>
  <artifactId>jbossws-native-client</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.2.GA</version>
</dependency>

So I get:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.tools.ws.wscompile.WsimportTool`

And if I add:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaxws-tools</artifactId>
  <version>2.2.7</version>
</dependency>

But I get:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.util.xml.JBossEntityResolver`

So this goes on and on. But I have the feeling, that I don't want all of these compile time dependencies and that I might need a way to tell the plugin about my JBoss installation with it's modules.

There is only litte documentation for the plugin.

There is this sample: https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/JAXWSToolsMavenPluginSample

But jbossws-cxf-client can't be a dependency, this is old code and uses jbossws-native. I'm also not sure if the jboss-as-maven-plugin has anything to do with it, but I don't want to deploy, only generate the code. I actaully do have the plugin set-up, although it doesn't work properly. But running mvn jboss-as:deploy it still fails at the jaxws-plugin before it can do any deployment.

This example is slightly different, but not much: https://github.com/tkobayas/example-projects/blob/master/helloworld_jaxws_cxf/pom.xml

Solution

  • I'm not familiar with the maven-jaxws-tools-plugin but you don't need to add compile-time dependencies: you just need to add those dependencies as plugin dependencies:

    <plugin>
  <groupId>org.jboss.ws.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jaxws-tools-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.1.Final</version>
  <configuration>
    <targetPackage>at.dataphone.logis3.wsdl.${projectName}</targetPackage>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <wsdls>
      <wsdl>${basedir}/wsdl/DPHItemBarcodesList.wsdl</wsdl>
    </wsdls>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
        <goal>wsconsume</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.ws.native</groupId>
      <artifactId>jbossws-native-client</artifactId>
      <version>4.0.2.GA</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
      <artifactId>jaxws-tools</artifactId>
      <version>2.2.7</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>

    This way, those dependencies will only be used during the execution of the plugin and won't be added to your project compile-time dependencies. Of course, this only should be done when your project won't depend on those at compile-time.

    You can then add in this tag all the necessary dependencies. For the class org.jboss.util.xml.JBossEntityResolver, it looks like the next one on the list is jboss-common-core...

    On a side-note, you should maybe consider using the cxf-codegen-plugin by from the Apache CXF project.