Parser Error cxf-beans.xml no declaration can be found for element 'jaxws:endpoint'

Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd">
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />
<jaxws:endpoint xmlns:tns="http://sampleService.viasat.com/"
id="sampleserviceinterfcae" implementor="com.viasat.sampleservice.SampleServiceInterfcaeImpl"
    wsdlLocation="wsdl/sampleserviceimplementation.wsdl" endpointName="tns:SampleServiceImplementationPort"
    serviceName="tns:SampleServiceImplementationService" address="/SampleServiceImplementationPort">
<jaxws:features>
<bean class="org.apache.cxf.feature.LoggingFeature" />
</jaxws:features>
</jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>

I'm using Maven to build the Application. After mvn clean and mvn install I deploy the application in Tomcat after which I'm getting the following error:

Line 11 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/cxf-beans.xml] is invalid;

nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'jaxws:endpoint'

Answer 1

Your spring configurations looks alright. So the only reason I could think of is that you are missing one of those dependencies in your classpath (most likely cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws):

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-bindings-soap</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-extension-providers</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

Make sure that you have them in your pom.xml and it should work.