Web Service application throws java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger

Issue

• A web service client is deployed in JBoss EAP 6. It is based out of Apache CXF 2.7.4.
• JBoss will start without error messages. When calling the web service via the client, the following below exception is encountered:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger.log(Lorg/slf4j/Marker;Ljava/lang/String;ILjava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Throwable;)V
    at examaple.com.logging.Slf4jLogger.internalLogFormatted(Slf4jLogger.java:139)
    at example.com.logging.AbstractDelegatingLogger.internalLog(AbstractDelegatingLogger.java:355)
    at example.com.logging.AbstractDelegatingLogger.doLog(AbstractDelegatingLogger.java:337)
    at example.com.logging.AbstractDelegatingLogger.info(AbstractDelegatingLogger.java:237)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.buildServiceFromClass(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:445)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.buildServiceFromClass(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:690)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.initializeServiceModel(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:540)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.create(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:252)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:205)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpoint(AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:102)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientFactoryBean.create(ClientFactoryBean.java:90)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxyFactoryBean.create(ClientProxyFactoryBean.java:156)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.create(JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.java:156)

• The content of the manifest.mf shows the below content

Import-Package: org.slf4j.impl;version=1.5.8

• I tried to change to slf4j version 1.7.5 which is coming with cxf. But it gets to another error while starting up JBoss:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.getSingleton()Lorg/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder;
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.bind(LoggerFactory.java:128)
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:107)
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:295)
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:269)
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:281)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:152)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.<clinit>(Ejb3Configuration.java:108)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:131)
    at org.jboss.jpa.deployment.PersistenceUnitDeployment.start(PersistenceUnitDeployment.java:301)

• Seems as if hibernate is using slf4j in a former version, 1.5.8, but cxf wants version 1.7.5.