List of jar files for Jax-ws (SOAP) based Java Web Services

Here are the list of jar files that are required when you are creating a Web Service based on Java Jax-ws (SOAP)

jaxb-api.jar

jaxb-impl.jar

jaxws-rt.jar

stax-ex.jar

streambuffer.jar

Make sure that you place these jar files under WebContent/WEB-INF/lib folder of your Eclipse dynamic web project. If you fail to do so you will get WSServletContextListener exception.

SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
	at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1720)
	at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:506)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:488)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:115)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4932)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5528)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1575)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1565)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)