Unable to deploy the project in Apache tomcat with apache cxf

Question

I have created a soap web service using spring 4.2.4, apache cxf 3.1.4 and maven 3.0. When I try to deploy the application, I am getting an error like below:

WARNING: Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'pdpservice': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.isCglibProxyClass(Ljava/lang/Class;)Z
Dec 21, 2015 3:12:34 PM org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplicationContext
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'pdpservice': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.isCglibProxyClass(Ljava/lang/Class;)Z
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1578)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:772)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:839)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:538)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:446)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:328)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5077)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5591)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1574)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1564)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.isCglibProxyClass(Ljava/lang/Class;)Z
    at org.apache.cxf.common.util.SpringAopClassHelper.getRealClassInternal(SpringAopClassHelper.java:85)
    at org.apache.cxf.common.util.ClassHelper.getRealClass(ClassHelper.java:65)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ServerFactoryBean.create(ServerFactoryBean.java:150)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsServerFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServerFactoryBean.java:211)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.getServer(EndpointImpl.java:456)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:334)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:251)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:539)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1706)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1645)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)
    ... 21 more

when i try to debug this i come to know, my code referring the below class org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.isCglibProxyClass Instead of org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.isCglibProxyClass.

Reference: Bean creation throws exception at the build time

I dont know what i did wrong. Below given the POM.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    ...
    <properties>
        <spring.version>4.2.4.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <cxf.version>3.1.4</cxf.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
    <!-- Spring framework -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- Web Service runtime -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-core</artifactId>
        <version>${cxf.version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-rt-bindings-soap</artifactId>
        <version>${cxf.version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</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-rs-extension-providers</artifactId>
        <version>${cxf.version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-bundle</artifactId>
        <version>2.7.18</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>*</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>*</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
                <artifactId>*</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-tools-java2ws</artifactId>
        <version>${cxf.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
    ....
    </build>
</Project>

My Service class:

package com.pd.service;

import java.util.List;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;

import com.pd.service.bean.Product;

@WebService(targetNamespace="http://service.pd.com/")
public interface PDService {

    @WebMethod
     public Product getProduct(@WebParam(name = "arg0") int id);
    @WebMethod
     public List<Product> getAllProducts();

}

My service class Implementation:

package com.pd.service.impl;

import java.util.List;

import javax.jws.WebService;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

import com.pd.service.PDService;
import com.pd.service.bean.Product;
import com.pd.service.dao.PDServiceDAO;

@WebService(targetNamespace="http://impl.service.pd.com/", endpointInterface="com.pd.service.PDService")
public class PDServiceImpl implements PDService {

    @Autowired
    PDServiceDAO pdServiceDAO;

    @Override
    public Product getProduct(int id) {
        return pdServiceDAO.getProduct(id);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Product> getAllProducts() {
        return pdServiceDAO.getAllProducts();
    }
}

Could you please help me with this. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Bumping CXF from 2.7.18 to 3.2.0 fixed this issue for me.

CXF needs to be bumped to major version 3, which supports Spring 4.2.x.

Note that OP used CXF 2.7.18 for artifact cxf-bundle. This is what was causing the trouble.

Answer 2

That version of cxf is not compatible with Spring 4.2.x - those methods were deprecated in Spring 3.1 and were removed in Spring 4.2.

See the commit here. CXF needs to change the method call to use ClassUtils#isCglibProxyClass(Class).

You'll have to check with the CXF folks to see if they have a version that works with Spring 4.2.

Answer 3

Upgrading to apache cxf to 3.2.0 fixed the issue for Spring Framework 5.0.1