Web Service client rarely got NullPointerException inside Apache CXF code included in EAP 6.x and 7.x
Issue
Web Service client rarely failed with the following NullPointerException in Apache CXF included in EAP 6.x and 7.x:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.cxf.common.jaxb.JAXBUtils.createJAXBContextProxy(JAXBUtils.java:1425)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.checkForJAXBAnnotations(JAXBDataBinding.java:433)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.justCheckForJAXBAnnotations(JAXBDataBinding.java:427)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxb.JAXBDataBinding.initialize(JAXBDataBinding.java:363)
at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.AbstractServiceFactoryBean.initializeDataBindings(AbstractServiceFactoryBean.java:86)
at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.buildServiceFromWSDL(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:446)
at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.initializeServiceModel(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:548)
at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.create(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:265)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:215)
at org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpoint(AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:102)
at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientFactoryBean.create(ClientFactoryBean.java:91)
at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxyFactoryBean.create(ClientProxyFactoryBean.java:157)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.create(JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.java:142)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.createPort(ServiceImpl.java:478)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.client.ProviderImpl$JBossWSServiceImpl.createPort(ProviderImpl.java:558)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.getPort(ServiceImpl.java:329)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.getPort(ServiceImpl.java:324)
at javax.xml.ws.Service.getPort(Service.java:168) [jboss-jaxws-api_2.2_spec-2.0.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:2.0.2.Final-redhat-1]
...(snip)...
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.x
- 7.x
- Apache CXF
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