How to remove JBossWS from JBoss EAP 4.x

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Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 4.3.x

Issue

  • We are getting a StackOverflowError when we converted some of our web services to use the CXF framework. It looks like the error comes from a conflict with the saaj library bundled with the JBoss EAP 4.3. As a workaround we put some updated xml jars & saaj jars in the endorsed directory, is this workaround acceptable? Or is there a better way?

We are setting these to use our new implementations:
-Djavax.xml.soap.MessageFactory=com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.soap.MetaFactory=com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SAAJMetaFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory=com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPFactoryImpl

And putting these jars in the $JBSOS_HOME/lib/endorsed/ directory:
* opensaml-2.5.1-1.jar
* xmlsec-1.5.1.jar
* xmltooling-1.3.2-1.jar
* saaj-api-1.3.4.jar
* saaj-impl-1.3.18.jar
* wss4j-1.6.5.jar

  • How can we disable JBoss Web Services in JBoss EAP 4.3?

Resolution

Remove the following files from JBoss EAP 4.x to disable JBoss Web Services:

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/wsconsume.sh
$JBOSS_HOME/bin/wsprovide.sh
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jaxb-api.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jaxb-impl.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jaxb-xjc.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jaxws-rt.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jaxws-tools.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jboss-jaxrpc.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jboss-jaxws.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jboss-saaj.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jbossws-client.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jbossws-common.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jbossws-framework.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/jbossws-spi.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/policy.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/stax-ex.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/streambuffer.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/client/wsdl4j.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/lib/endorsed/jaxb-api.jar
$JBOSS_HOMElib/endorsed/jboss-jaxrpc.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/lib/endorsed/jboss-jaxws.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/lib/endorsed/jboss-saaj.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/deploy/jbossws.sar/
$JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/lib/jboss-jaxrpc.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/lib/jboss-jaxws.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/lib/jboss-saaj.jar
$JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/deploy/juddi-service.sar/

An ant script is attached, run it for instructions. Make sure to backup your directory in case there are issues.

ant -f remove-jbossws-build.xml

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