Unable to create JAXBContext creating my wsdl

I am trying to generate my WSDL for webservices but I get this error:

Note:   ap round: 2
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to create JAXBContext
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.createJAXBContext(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:153)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.postProcess(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:83)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.buildRuntimeModel(RuntimeModeler.java:244)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsgenTool.buildModel(WsgenTool.java:229)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.wscompile.WsgenTool.run(WsgenTool.java:112)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.Invoker.invoke(Invoker.java:105)
        at com.sun.tools.internal.ws.WsGen.main(WsGen.java:41)
Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 1 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
java.lang.StackTraceElement does not have a no-arg default constructor.
        this problem is related to the following location:
                at java.lang.StackTraceElement
                at public java.lang.StackTraceElement[] java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace()
                at java.lang.Throwable
                at java.lang.Exception
                at java.sql.SQLException
                at private java.sql.SQLException wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean.nextException
                at wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.createJAXBContext(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:140)
        ... 10 more
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 1 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
java.lang.StackTraceElement does not have a no-arg default constructor.
        this problem is related to the following location:
                at java.lang.StackTraceElement
                at public java.lang.StackTraceElement[] java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace()
                at java.lang.Throwable
                at java.lang.Exception
                at java.sql.SQLException
                at private java.sql.SQLException wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean.nextException
                at wsdb.jaxws.SQLExceptionBean

        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException$Builder.check(IllegalAnnotationsException.java:91)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:436)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.(JAXBContextImpl.java:277)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl$JAXBContextBuilder.build(JAXBContextImpl.java:1100)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:143)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.api.JAXBRIContext.newInstance(JAXBRIContext.java:95)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.developer.JAXBContextFactory$1.createJAXBContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:97)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl$1.run(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:148)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl$1.run(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:140)
        ... 12 more

I saw a few discusion in internet about this begin with build a constructor for all classes until create another xml specification. The truth is there is no a real answer for this or the solutions that I test doesnt work any.

I read a discussion here about this problem but it was unterminated and I dont know how to resolve. If somebody has a cluee about this I so appreciated to addrees me into rigth direction to avoid this.

I am using Debian Squezze, Java 1.6_20, JAX-WS JAX-WS RI 2.1.6 in JDK 6 and wsgen to generate the wsdl. The first step it did correct, generate the jaxws directory with bean classes.


Throwable objects (that means exceptions and errors) can't be transferred directly, because they can't be serialized to XML (the StackTraceElement doesn't have a no-arg constructor, which is required by JAXB).

You have to use SOAP faults for that. See this question. It points you to the @WebFault annotation which you should put on your exception class. (Also probably check this and this)


Domenic D. had the right answer that worked for me, but I would like to expand on it.

My Maven project built just fine with JDK 6, but when I switched to be using JDK 1.7 as my default, the build broke. By adding an explicit jaxb-impl dependency w/ version, it worked, such as:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.6</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <executions>
        <execution>
        ...
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Regarding the version: This bug is listed at https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-814. It's fixed for versions 2.2.4u2, 2.2.5, 2.3


I have resolved this issue by fixing the jaxb-impl version from 2.1.9 to 2.2.6 and it works fine now

<dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.6</version>
</dependency>

It looks like a part of your declared API includes a type that extends a type with an internal field of type StackTraceElement[ ].

Because StackTraceElement has no zero-argument constructor, JAXB cannot de-serialize instances of this class .

Try removing the nextException field from SQLExceptionBean, or removing parameters of type SQLExceptionBean from your service APIs.