I am wrote and deployed a CXF web service into a Tomcat server using the instructions here. The web service deploys fine as I can see the WSDL file in a web browser.
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Interestingly I had this issue in docker container and not while running it on tomcat server.
The problem that I faced was that the project had another lower version of wstx-asl-3.2.7 and the class loader probably could have loaded this versions first. I got rid of it and the necessary woodstox was considered and the problem was solved.