[client] NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/soap/FactoryLoader

[Alessandro Ilardo]

Hi there,
I'm new with web services and JAX-WS. I'm trying to call a web service from a simple client application, but I'm getting this error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/soap/FactoryLoader
at javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider.provider(Provider.java:91)
at javax.xml.ws.Service.<init>(Service.java:83)
at eu.virtualLab.busSchedule.webservice.artifacts.BusSessionBeanService.<init>(BusSessionBeanService.java:46)
at eu.virtualLab.busSchedule.webservice.client.Main.main(Main.java:38)
Java Result: 1

I tried to follow step by step the tutorials and keep it simple as much as I could, but I don't understand the error.
Below the clent code, the artifacts have been made by JBOSS tools.

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        BusSessionBeanService service = new BusSessionBeanService();  
        if(args.length > 0){      
            //get info service
            if (args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("-info")) {
                try {
                    BusWebService port = service.getBusSessionBeanPort();
                    String infoService = port.info();
                    System.out.println(infoService);
                } catch(Exception ex) {
                    System.out.println(ex);
                    System.exit(1);
                }
            } else{
                usage();
                System.exit(0);
            }
        }else{
            usage();
            System.exit(0);
        }
        System.out.println("Goodbye");
    }

Any help is appreciate.
Thanks in advance

[Jaikiran Pai]

Looks like you are missing the jar file which contains javax/xml/soap/FactoryLoader class. I dont know the name of the jar (most probably its saaj.jar). You will have to place it in your applications classpath.

[Alessandro Ilardo]

I spent some time on the Internet trying to figure out where I could find those classes.

saaj-api.jar
saaj-impl.jar

don't have it.
I can't even find the API docs.

[Alessandro Ilardo]

Solved it.
Don't use jboss client jars.

Thanks anyway for any help.

[Mark Uppeteer]

Although you've solved it this way, it can be done with the jboss libraries.
There is also a 'client' folder in your jboss home, and there there is a jboss-saaj jar file.

Best regards,
Mark