java.lang.LinkageError in JAXB

[Anubhav Anand]

There are exposed services at one of the server.
I have my JAX-WS client as a java project and it works fine.

When I include the client jar in my web-ui project and try to talk to the services, I get java.lang.LinkageError.

    
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.LinkageError: JAXB 2.0 API is being loaded from the bootstrap classloader, but this RI (from jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_16/jre/lib/endorsed/webservices-rt.jar!/com/sun/xml/bind/v2/model/impl/ModelBuilder.class) needs 2.1 API. Use the endorsed directory mechanism to place jaxb-api.jar in the bootstrap classloader. (See <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/standards/%29" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/standards/)</a>

I googled and found the JAXB unoffical guide and tried to use the endorsed mechanism given there. It doesn't help.

I am using JDK 1.5 update 16. and Tomcat 6.0.18.
I am using JAX-WS classes to make the web service delegate and client.

Please help. It's really killing me..

Thanks in advance.

[Anubhav Anand]

Hi All,

I finally resolved it and listing it for anyone else who may face the problem.

The issue was that I was thinking that my JDK version was the culprit, but I found that the Java EE 5 libraries I was using were had the older version of JAXB(2.0) bundled while my JDK 1.5 update 16 had the JAXB 2.1 bundled libraries.

I simple got rid of the EE libraries and placed the ones which had JAXB 2.1 bundled.

The issue was because the JAXB 2.0 libraries can't understand the JAXB 2.1 schemas.

[er.gaurav goel]

Thanks alot. Your post saved lots of my time.