WLS 10.3.4: Unable to deploy webservice created from Spring due to "Unable to create message factory for SOAP".

(Doc ID 1316764.1)

Last updated on MARCH 01, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle WebLogic Server - Version 10.3.4 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

When attempting to deploy Spring framework webservice on Weblogic 10.3.4 (WLS), the following  error is logged to WLS server log:

Caused by: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Unable to create message factory for SOAP: weblogic.webservice.core.soap.MessageFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory
at javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory.afterPropertiesSet(SaajSoapMessageFactory.java:145)
at org.springframework.ws.support.DefaultStrategiesHelper.instantiateBean(DefaultStrategiesHelper.java:185)
at org.springframework.ws.support.DefaultStrategiesHelper.getDefaultStrategies(DefaultStrategiesHelper.java:134)
at org.springframework.ws.support.DefaultStrategiesHelper.getDefaultStrategy(DefaultStrategiesHelper.java:219)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.initWebServiceMessageFactory(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:320)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.initMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:305)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.initFrameworkServlet(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:227)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:307)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:241)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)


The Webservice is packaged with the following required versions of SAAJ resources (that are required by the webservice) -

The javax.xml.soap.* package has also been added to <prefer-application-packages> in the weblogic-application.xml deployment descriptor, which is the proper way to define filtering classloading in Weblogic Server.

Cause

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