JAX-WS 2.1.3 runtime with Jetty

So I had the need to make a web service call out from a web application using JAX-WS 2.1.3 runtime. To do this in WebLogic 10.0.1, one has to resort to WebLogic-specific classpath manipulations, i.e., putting the runtime jars inside APP-INF/lib folder of the EAR that contains the .war file. One would also need to put the following in application-weblogic.xml:

<prefer-application-packages>
   <package-name>javax.activation.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.annotation.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.jws.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.xml.bind.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.xml.soap.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.xml.stream.*</package-name>
   <package-name>javax.xml.ws.*</package-name>

   <package-name>com.sun.activation.registries.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.activation.viewers.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.istack.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.xml.stream.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.xml.txw2.*</package-name>
   <package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.*</package-name>

   <package-name>org.jvnet.mimepull.*</package-name>
   <package-name>org.jvnet.staxex.*</package-name>

   <package-name>weblogic.xml.saaj.*</package-name>
</prefer-application-packages>

So, not the easiest way around.

Well, turns out it's much easier to do this in Jetty, all one has to do is to package the following jars from JAX-WS 2.1.3 distribution into WEB-INF/lib and everything is golden:

activation-1.1.jar
jaxb-api-2.1.jar
jaxb-impl-2.1.6.jar
jaxws-api-2.1.jar
jaxws-rt-2.1.3.jar
jsr181-api-1.0.jar
jsr250-api-1.0.jar
mimepull-1.1.jar
resolver-20050927.jar
saaj-api-1.3.jar
saaj-impl-1.3.jar
sjsxp-1.0.jar
stax-api-1.0-2.jar
stax-ex-1.2.jar
streambuffer-0.7.jar

If you are using maven 2, the following dependencies should do the trick:

<dependency>
 <groupId>javax.xml.ws</groupId>
 <artifactId>jaxws-api</artifactId>
 <version>2.1</version>
 <scope>compile</scope>
 <exclusions>
   <exclusion>
     <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
     <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
   </exclusion>
 </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
 <artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
 <version>2.1.3</version>
 <scope>compile</scope>
 <exclusions>
   <exclusion>
     <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
     <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
   </exclusion>
 </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupId>javax.jws</groupId>
 <artifactId>jsr181-api</artifactId>
 <version>1.0</version>
 <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
 <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
 <version>2.1</version>
 <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>