I am geting an error when I run a spring application that is using spring webservices implementatioin on WAS 7. The org.apache.axiom.om.util.StAXUtils in the application is falling to initialize. Below is part of the error trace:

E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp logServletError SRVE0293E: [Servlet Error]-[ws]: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.axiom.om.util.StAXUtils (initialization failure)

at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:140)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.SOAPPartImpl.(SOAPPartImpl.java:178)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.SOAPMessageImpl.(SOAPMessageImpl.java:93)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.MessageFactoryImpl.createMessage(Message
FactoryImpl.java:127)

at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory.create
WebServiceMessage(SaajSoapMessageFactory.java:164)

//revomoved for brevity

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No valid ObjectCreator found.

at org.apache.axiom.om.util.StAXUtils$Pool.(StAXUtils.java:44)

at org.apache.axiom.om.util.StAXUtils.(StAXUtils.java:68)

at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)

at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.SOAPPartImpl.(SOAPPartImpl.java:178)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.SOAPMessageImpl.(SOAPMessageImpl.java:93)

at org.apache.axis2.saaj.MessageFactoryImpl.createMessage(Message
FactoryImpl.java:127)

at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory.create
WebServiceMessage(SaajSoapMessageFactory.java:164)

Any suggestions on how to deal with issue, greatly appreciated.
MWL

If you wait for application startup to complete and then make the webservices call ... do you still get the error ? I think you are having problems locating the jar file using the manifest.  
 

Joseph:
thanks for your reponse. basically the error gets generated at runtime, all the classes are successfully loaded by was 7; however, the errror occurs when there is a call to one of the web services modules using stax implementation.

--best
miya