Unable to create JAXBContext creating my wsdl

Question

I am trying to generate my WSDL for webservices but I get this error:

Note:   ap round: 2
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to create JAXBContext
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.createJAXBContext(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:153)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.postProcess(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:83)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.buildRuntimeModel(RuntimeModeler.java:244)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsgenTool.buildModel(WsgenTool.java:229)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsgenTool.run(WsgenTool.java:112)
        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 com.sun.tools.internal.ws.Invoker.invoke(Invoker.java:105)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.WsGen.main(WsGen.java:41)
Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 1 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
java.lang.StackTraceElement does not have a no-arg default constructor.
        this problem is related to the following location:
                at java.lang.StackTraceElement
                at public java.lang.StackTraceElement[] java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace()
                at java.lang.Throwable
                at java.lang.Exception
                at java.sql.SQLException
                at private java.sql.SQLException wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean.nextException
                at wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.createJAXBContext(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:140)
        ... 10 more
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 1 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
java.lang.StackTraceElement does not have a no-arg default constructor.
        this problem is related to the following location:
                at java.lang.StackTraceElement
                at public java.lang.StackTraceElement[] java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace()
                at java.lang.Throwable
                at java.lang.Exception
                at java.sql.SQLException
                at private java.sql.SQLException wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean.nextException
                at wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean

        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException$Builder.check(IllegalAnnotationsException.java:91)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:436)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.(JAXBContextImpl.java:277)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl$JAXBContextBuilder.build(JAXBContextImpl.java:1100)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:143)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.api.JAXBRIContext.newInstance(JAXBRIContext.java:95)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.developer.JAXBContextFactory$1.createJAXBContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:97)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl$1.run(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:148)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl$1.run(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:140)
        ... 12 more

I saw a few discusion in internet about this begin with build a constructor for all classes until create another xml specification. The truth is there is no a real answer for this or the solutions that I test doesnt work any.

I read a discussion here about this problem but it was unterminated and I dont know how to resolve. If somebody has a cluee about this I so appreciated to addrees me into rigth direction to avoid this.

I am using Debian Squezze, Java 1.6_20, JAX-WS JAX-WS RI 2.1.6 in JDK 6 and wsgen to generate the wsdl. The first step it did correct, generate the jaxws directory with bean classes.

Answer 1

Throwable objects (that means exceptions and errors) can't be transferred directly, because they can't be serialized to XML (the StackTraceElement doesn't have a no-arg constructor, which is required by JAXB).

You have to use SOAP faults for that. See this question. It points you to the @WebFault annotation which you should put on your exception class. (Also probably check this and this)

Answer 2

Domenic D. had the right answer that worked for me, but I would like to expand on it.

My Maven project built just fine with JDK 6, but when I switched to be using JDK 1.7 as my default, the build broke. By adding an explicit jaxb-impl dependency w/ version, it worked, such as:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.6</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <executions>
        <execution>
        ...
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Regarding the version: This bug is listed at https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-814. It's fixed for versions 2.2.4u2, 2.2.5, 2.3