Hello, I posted this to the user mailing list but I want to post this here as well for your input.
I have CXF 2.2.1 based web services using Spring 2.5.6 and would like to use @Aspect driven aspects. To enable this, I added the <aop:aspect-autoproxy/> tag to my configuration. Well, this severely broke the CXF functionality throwing exceptions as shown below. Stepping through the code I found that the issue is in the ResourceInjector.java class in the getAnnotatedMethods() implementation as this is not proxy aware and JDK proxies don't retain annotation information (which think is a major flaw in the jdk proxy implementation). Unfortunately, Spring's implementation of <aop:aspectj-autoproxy/> tag proxies every single bean. I tried to force the use of CGLIB proxies, but for some reason Spring reverts to jdk proxy creation and the same exceptions follow. I can't imagine I'm the first to run into this so any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Exception: Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:275) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:209) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:404) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory .invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1414) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory .invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1375) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory .initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1335) ... 39 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException At org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpointInfo( AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:240) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpoint(Abst ractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:146) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ServerFactoryBean.create(ServerFactoryBean.java:117) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsServerFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServerFactoryBean.ja va:168) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.getServer(EndpointImpl.java:346) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:259)