When deploying a web application I get the exception NoClassDefFoundError:LocalizableImpl

Question

I have a standard J2EE web application that includes web services. I'm using the webservices-rt library to host the services. [See the maven dependency below]. However, I get the following exception at run time:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/xml/ws/util/localization/LocalizableImpl
    at com.sun.xml.ws.util.exception.JAXWSExceptionBase.<init>(JAXWSExceptionBase.java:63)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletException.<init>(WSServletException.java:47)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WSServletContextListener.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4791)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5285)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) [...]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.ws.util.localization.LocalizableImpl
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    ... 33 more

Maven WS Dependency

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
        <artifactId>webservices-rt</artifactId>
        <version>1.4</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

Am I missing a library? I've tried adding jaxws-rt. However, that requires an additional repo [jboss]. I'm a bit leery of that, as that it introduces a lot of new libraries into the project.

Answer 1

If you are using Maven, add below to your project should solve your problem:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
</dependency>

You don't have to add others jar because it will automatically pull the rest of dependencies. I prefer to add the jar to my war instead of Tomcat lib. I think it is more portable.

Answer 2

try

The JAX-WS dependency library “jaxws-rt.jar” is missing.

Go here http://jax-ws.java.net/.

Download JAX-WS RI distribution.

Unzip it and copy “jaxws-rt.jar” to Tomcat library folder “{$TOMCAT}/lib“.

Restart Tomcat.