java.lang.ClassNotFoundException : org.jvnet.staxex.XMLStreamReaderEx

By mkyong | Updated: November 22, 2010

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Tags: jax-ws

Problem

Deploying a JAX-WS web service on Tomcat, hits following error message :

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
	org.jvnet.staxex.XMLStreamReaderEx

Solution

The JAX-WS dependency library “stax-ex.jar” is missing.

1. Go here http://jax-ws.java.net/.
2. Download JAX-WS RI distribution.
3. Unzip it and copy “stax-ex.jar” to Tomcat library folder “{$TOMCAT}/lib“.
4. Restart Tomcat.