Christof Rabensteiner created CXF-8100: ------------------------------------------
Summary: JAXB Class Not Found Exception on Java >=9 and Tomcat Key: CXF-8100 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8100 Project: CXF Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 3.3.3 Environment: Ubuntu 18.10 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 12.0.1+12) Tomcat 9.0.14 Reporter: Christof Rabensteiner When creating a SOAP Client with JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.create(), JAXB's class loader does not find the context factory (see stack trace at the bottom) and throws a ClassNotFound Exception. This does *not* happen when I run test with Junit, but it happens when I deploy my Apache CXF Application to Tomcat. All the JAXB artifacts (cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb-3.3.0.jar, jaxb-api-2.3.1.jar, jaxb-core-2.3.0.1.jar, jaxb-impl-2.3.2.jar, jaxb-runtime-2.3.1.jar and jaxb-xjc-2.3.2.jar) are in WEB-INF/lib and are therefore available to the web apps class loader. The reason why JAXB does not find the class is, according to the stack overflow post [JAXB not available on Tomcat 9 and Java 9/10|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51518781/jaxb-not-available-on-tomcat-9-and-java-9-10], that JAXB uses the "thread's context class loader". In Tomcat, this class loader is the system class loader, and because Tomcat [builds a class loader hierarchy|https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html], the system class loader does not know about a web app's dependencies. JAXB Implementations were removed from the JRE in Java 9 and now the system class loader does not find them. According to the mentioned post, this problem could be solved by refactoring org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBContextCache and switching invocations from {code:java} newInstance( Class<?>[] classesToBeBound, Map<String,?> properties ) {code} to {code:java} newInstance( String contextPath, ClassLoader classLoader, Map<String,?> properties) {code} , where JAXBContextCache could pass down the correct classLoader. Another probably "hacky" solution is to wrap all interactions with JAXB in a proper thread (as described in this post: [JAXB Hell on JDK 9|https://sjhannah.com/blog/2018/11/21/jaxb-hell-on-jdk-9/]). Stack trace: {code:java} Caused by: org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ServiceConstructionException: null at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.initialize(JAXBDataBinding.java:355) at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.AbstractServiceFactoryBean.initializeDataBindings(AbstractServiceFactoryBean.java:86) at org.apache.cxf.wsdl.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.buildServiceFromClass(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:470) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.buildServiceFromClass(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:693) at org.apache.cxf.wsdl.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.initializeServiceModel(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:530) at org.apache.cxf.wsdl.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.create(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:263) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:199) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpoint(AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:103) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientFactoryBean.create(ClientFactoryBean.java:91) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxyFactoryBean.create(ClientProxyFactoryBean.java:159) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.create(JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.java:142) ... Caused by: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath. at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:232) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:375) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:691) at org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBContextCache$2.run(JAXBContextCache.java:346) at org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBContextCache$2.run(JAXBContextCache.java:344) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:551) at org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBContextCache.createContext(JAXBContextCache.java:344) at org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBContextCache.getCachedContextAndSchemas(JAXBContextCache.java:246) at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.createJAXBContextAndSchemas(JAXBDataBinding.java:498) at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.initialize(JAXBDataBinding.java:353) ... 23 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:583) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521) at javax.xml.bind.ServiceLoaderUtil.nullSafeLoadClass(ServiceLoaderUtil.java:92) at javax.xml.bind.ServiceLoaderUtil.safeLoadClass(ServiceLoaderUtil.java:125) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:230) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.2#803003)