JDK 11: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/ws/handler/soap/SOAPHandler

Question

We are migrating to openjdk 11 from jdk 8. Some of our projects that uses soap to call third party apis are failing with error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: j         


        

Answer 1

Include jaxws-api in your dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

The javax APIs were transitioned to Jakarta, so in 2020 the proper dependency is the following:

<dependency>
    <groupId>jakarta.xml.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>jakarta.xml.ws-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.3</version>
</dependency>

Here's an article summarizing what happened: Java Magazine - Transition from Java EE to Jakarta EE

And here's a very useful table with mappings between the old artifacts and the new one.