JAX-WS on Tomcat Server

Question

I am trying to deploy JAX-WS on a Tomcat server. I browsed the web and followed the instructions that I found here and here but to no avail. I get the following error and don’t know how to fix the problem.

SEVERE: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/stream/XMLStreamException java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/stream/XMLStreamException at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WSServletContextListener.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3827) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:903) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:216) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement(CatalinaDigester.java:76) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:483) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) 

- Error listenerStart - Failed to start contextual launch due to previous errors June 30, 2011 10:04:25 com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextDestroyed INFO: WSSERVLET13: JAX-WS context listener destroyed

here is my sun-jaxws.xml file

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <endpoints xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml.ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime" version="2.0"> <endpoint name="ActionMutatorProxy" implementation="com.hyr.boa.transport.ActionMutatorProxy" url-pattern="/action_mutator_proxy" /> 

Answer 1

A NoClassDefFoundError at deployment time means that the class definition that was present in the build path (for example, compiling Java code) cannot be found at run time. The compile-time class path does not match the deployment-time class path with Tomcat (and other containers).

You need to put jaxp-api.jar in WEB-INF/lib or $CATALINA_HOME/lib .