Could not load 'class path resource [org/springframework/ws/client/core/WebServiceTemplate.properties]

Question

I have written some code in which i am consuming another webService and sending a request to that webservice using WebServiceTemplate. But i am getting the following exception when that code trgiggers. I have checked the lib's of Spring Core & everything seems ok but dont know why this service is throwing such exception.

ApplicationContxt:

    <bean id="messageFactory" class="org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory">
    <property name="soapVersion">
        <util:constant static-field="org.springframework.ws.soap.SoapVersion.SOAP_12" />
    </property>
</bean>

 <bean id="manageContactService" class="com.canaldigital.tsi.managecontacts.serviceprovider.ManageContactService">
    <property name="manageContactsWSTemplate" ref="manageContactsWSTemplate" />
</bean>

    <bean name="manageContactsWSTemplate" class="org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate">
    <constructor-arg ref="messageFactory" />

     <property name="defaultUri" value="http://tsi-vip-abc.com:7111/abc_v2/ProxyService?WSDL" /> 

    <property name="marshaller" ref="manageContactMarshaller" />
    <property name="unmarshaller" ref="manageContactUnmarshaller" />

</bean> 

Service:

 public class ManageContactService extends WebServiceGatewaySupport  {

        private WebServiceTemplate manageContactsWSTemplate;        
        public WebServiceTemplate getManageContactsWSTemplate() {
    return manageContactsWSTemplate;
}
public void setManageContactsWSTemplate(WebServiceTemplate manageContactsWSTemplate) {
    this.manageContactsWSTemplate = manageContactsWSTemplate;
}
    public void sendNPSReminder(String phoneNum, String customerNum, String countryCode ) {


            SendNPSReminderRequestType sendNPSReminderRequest = new SendNPSReminderRequestType();
            Contact contact = new Contact();            
            sendNPSReminderRequest.setCountryCode(CountryCodeCV.NO);
            contact.setPhone(new BigInteger(phoneNum));             
            sendNPSReminderRequest.setContact(contact);
            sendNPSReminderRequest.setCustomerNumber(customerNum);

            try{

                JAXBElement<SendNPSReminderResponseType> response = (JAXBElement<SendNPSReminderResponseType>) manageContactsWSTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(sendNPSReminderRequest);
            }catch (Exception e) {

                e.printStackTrace();
            }

    }

    }

StackTrace:

    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load 'class path resource [org/springframework/ws/client/core/WebServiceTemplate.properties]': class path resource [org/springframework/ws/client/
ore/WebServiceTemplate.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
        at org.springframework.ws.support.DefaultStrategiesHelper.<init>(DefaultStrategiesHelper.java:78)
        at org.springframework.ws.support.DefaultStrategiesHelper.<init>(DefaultStrategiesHelper.java:88)
        at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.initDefaultStrategies(WebServiceTemplate.java:338)
        at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.<init>(WebServiceTemplate.java:130)
        at org.springframework.ws.client.core.support.WebServiceGatewaySupport.<init>(WebServiceGatewaySupport.java:65)
        at com.canaldigital.tsi.managecontacts.serviceprovider.ManageContactService.<init>(ManageContactService.java:24)
        at com.canaldigital.tsi.managecontacts.utils.CDCommonTasksJob.launch(CDCommonTasksJob.java:97)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2044.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.springframework.scheduling.support.ScheduledMethodRunnable.run(ScheduledMethodRunnable.java:64)
        at org.springframework.scheduling.support.DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.run(DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.java:53)
        at org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ReschedulingRunnable.run(ReschedulingRunnable.java:82)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:440)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:206)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Answer 1

That resource is part of spring-ws-core dependency, so it must work out of the box, but, I guess your are using WLS 11 (as you tagged it). So, it is possible that you are not using the spring dependency you have but instead spring packaged into WebLogic.

try to avoid this using WEB-INF/weblogic.xml descriptor as following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app">

    <container-descriptor>
        <prefer-application-packages>
            <package-name>org.springframework.*</package-name>
        </prefer-application-packages>

        <prefer-application-resources>
            <resource-name>org.springframework.*</resource-name>
        </prefer-application-resources>
    </container-descriptor>

</weblogic-web-app> 

With this configuration you are telling WLS to use your packages and resources for org.springframework.*.

Hope it helps!