Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: REFLECTION when upgrading cxf 3.5.5 and spring 5.3.27

Question

Getting following error when ugrading Apache cxf from 3.4.4 to 3.5.5 and spring 5.2.22 to 5.3.27.

Searched stack overflow posts and most point to jaxb versions mismatch. I have below jaxb versions:

jaxb-core-2.2.11.jar

jaxb-impl-2.2.11

jaxb-api-2.2.11

jaxb-runtime-2.3.5/ jaxb-runtime-2.2.11 (tried both versions one by one by doesn't resolve error)

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: REFLECTION
at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processDocWrappedMethod(RuntimeModeler.java:729)
at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processMethod(RuntimeModeler.java:574)
at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processClass(RuntimeModeler.java:402)
at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.buildRuntimeModel(RuntimeModeler.java:258)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.addSEI(WSServiceDelegate.java:683)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.getPort(WSServiceDelegate.java:340)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.getPort(WSServiceDelegate.java:323)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.getPort(WSServiceDelegate.java:305)
at javax.xml.ws.Service.getPort(Service.java:119)
at com.adobe.idp.services.forms.FormsServiceService.getFormsService(FormsServiceService.java:72)

The RuntimeModeler is coming jaxws-rt-2.1.4.jar

any pointers to troubleshoot the issue further ?

Answer 1

Removing jaxws-rt dependency resolved the issue.