Ant wsimport task failing

Question

I have a simple ant script to build my classes from a sdl. Unfortunately wsimport fails immediately. I suspect it has something to do with classpaths.

<taskdef name="wsimport" classname="com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport">
    <classpath>
        <pathelement location="${jaxws.lib.dir}/jaxws-tools.jar" />
    </classpath>
</taskdef>

<wsimport
    wsdl="${project.wsdl.dir}\some.wsdl"
    destdir="${jaxws.output.dir}"
    keep="false"
    extension="true"
    verbose="true"
    wsdlLocation="http://localhost/wsdl"
    target="2.1">
    <depends file="${project.wsdl.dir}"/>
    <produces dir="${jaxws.output.dir}"/>
</wsimport>

The this is the output it produces:

[wsimport] 15 Mar 2013 12:23:25 PM com.sun.xml.bind.v2.util.XmlFactory createDocumentBuilderFactory [wsimport] SEVERE: null [wsimport] java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setFeature(Ljava/lang/String;Z)V [wsimport] at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.util.XmlFactory.createDocumentBuilderFactory(XmlFactory.java:176) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.xjc.reader.internalizer.DOMForest.(DOMForest.java:162) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.xjc.api.impl.s2j.SchemaCompilerImpl.resetSchema(SchemaCompilerImpl.java:215) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.xjc.api.impl.s2j.SchemaCompilerImpl.(SchemaCompilerImpl.java:114) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.xjc.api.XJC.createSchemaCompiler(XJC.java:72) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.ws.wscompile.WsimportOptions.(WsimportOptions.java:152) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.ws.wscompile.WsimportTool.(WsimportTool.java:89) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.ws.wscompile.WsimportTool.(WsimportTool.java:92) [wsimport] at com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport2.execute(WsImport2.java:848) [wsimport] at com.sun.istack.tools.ProtectedTask.execute(ProtectedTask.java:103) [wsimport] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:269) [wsimport] at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) [wsimport] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:301) [wsimport] at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelper2.parse(ProjectHelper2.java:135) [wsimport] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.launching.remote.InternalAntRunner.parseBuildFile(InternalAntRunner.java:192) [wsimport] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.launching.remote.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:401) [wsimport] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.launching.remote.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:138)

If I run the commandline create by the verbose logging, on wsimport, from the jax-ws bin directory everything works perfectly

[wsimport] command line: wsimport -d C:\Development\Source\ccs\jaxws-output -extension -verbose -target 2.1 C:\Development\Source\ccs\wsdl\some.wsdl -wsdllocation http://localhost/wsdl

I tried looking for a solution, but right now I am out of ideas

Answer 1

I think that one of the things tedious to use in the approach that you mention (taskdef and wsimport) is adding environment variables, especially when you want to use SSL and Basic authentication in your web service. I another hand, you can use the wsimport tool without define a new task. Something like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE project>
<project name="generate-client" default="main" basedir=".">
    <property name="java.home" 
        value="X:\Software\jdk1.7.0_11" />
    <property name="wsdl.location" 
        value="http://localhost/wsdl" />
    <target name="main">
        <exec executable="${java.home}\bin\wsimport.exe">
            <arg line="${wsdl.location} -s src -Xdebug -verbose -Xnocompile" />
        </exec>
    </target>
</project>

Now that you have an idea, you can customize the output directory, add the target version ...