OC4J Configurations for Deploy Apache CXF Web Services

In this post I’ll guide you to port web service developed using Apache CXF and Spring Framework into Oracle Application server. After hitting the first deployment issue, I referred to Apache CXF Application Server Specific Configuration Guide. When going through this page, I noted some of the information (e.g - Get rid of OC4J JAX-WS libraries section) risk your Oracle Application server, as it require customization of oc4j.jar file. Actually I have oc4j.jar file as per this page, however when starting my SOA 10.1.3.5 instance, I ended-up with number of exceptions. Rather trying to resolve this issue, I decided another way of deploying the web service application. Please refer to OC4J_Configuration_For_Apache_CXF for all the steps I followed during the deployment.

Summery..

1. Followed these Section on Apache CXF Application Server Specific Configuration Guide

• Preparing stax-api
• Replace the Oracle XML parser with Xerces
• Added xercesImpl.jar, xml-apis.jar, xalan.jar and serializer.jar from Xalan distribution
• Added geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec-1.1.2.jar from CXF distribution.
• Swapping Oracle wsdl.jar with wsdl4j.jar
• Only nedded -Xbootclasspath/p:<path to wsdlj>/wsdl4j-1.6.1.jar
• Deploying applications
• Additionally I added all required CXF and Spring Framework libraries in WEB-INF/lib

2. I didn't follow these Sections on Apache CXF Application Server Specific Configuration Guide

• Get rid of OC4J JAX-WS libraries

3. I used following versions of software.

• Oracle SOA Suits 10.1.3.5.0 (I also tested on 10.1.3.3.0)
• Apache CXF 2.2.5
• Xalan 2.7.1
• Spring Framework 2.5.5

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