Sunday, June 28, 2009

XML namespace error with Spring WS

Today I ran into a strange error trying to access a webservice via Spring WS (Spring Web Services). The exception looked like the following :

org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapEnvelopeException: Could not access envelope: Unable to create envelope from given source: ; nested exception is com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to create envelope from given source: 
Caused by:
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to create envelope from given source:
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.EnvelopeFactory.createEnvelope(EnvelopeFactory.java:95)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.SOAPPart1_1Impl.createEnvelopeFromSource(SOAPPart1_1Impl.java:51)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPPartImpl.getEnvelope(SOAPPartImpl.java:106)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.Saaj13Implementation.getEnvelope(Saaj13Implementation.java:145)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.getEnvelope(SaajSoapMessage.java:84)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.AbstractSoapMessage.getSoapHeader(AbstractSoapMessage.java:42)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.server.SoapMessageDispatcher.handleRequest(SoapMessageDispatcher.java:91)
at org.springframework.ws.server.MessageDispatcher.dispatch(MessageDispatcher.java:189)
at org.springframework.ws.server.MessageDispatcher.receive(MessageDispatcher.java:166)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:78)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:60)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:819)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:754)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:399)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:364)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.util.transform.EfficientStreamingTransformer.transform(EfficientStreamingTransformer.java:371)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.EnvelopeFactory.createEnvelope(EnvelopeFactory.java:83)
... 30 more
Caused by: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.AttrNSImpl.setName(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.AttrNSImpl.(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createAttributeNS(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPDocumentImpl.createAttributeNS(SOAPDocumentImpl.java:142)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.setAttributeNS(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.ElementImpl.setAttributeNS(ElementImpl.java:1190)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.SAX2DOM.startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler.closeStartTag(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.ToSAXHandler.flushPending(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler.startElement(Unknown Source)
at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl.startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.util.RejectDoctypeSaxFilter.startElement(RejectDoctypeSaxFilter.java:157)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(Unknown Source)
... 34 more


As it turns out, the Java 6 JDK comes with its own integrated versions of Apache Xerces and Apache Xalan. The problem is that the integrated versions are old. Updating your project's POM to ensure versions of Apache Xerces >= 2.8.1 and Apache Xalan >= 2.7.0 are in your classpath will remedy the problem.

4 comments:

jackcd1 said...

Hi Alex,

Thank you so much for posting this solution! You saved me a huge headache! I looked all over the web and no one seemed to know the answer.
I added this to my pom.xml for maven, and it worked:

I added xercesImpl version 2.9.1 and xalan version 2.7.1 to my pom.xml and it worked!

Anil Joseph said...

Thanks a lot. This really helped.

Carlos C. said...

Thanks. You saved my life :)

Raman_Ravikumar said...

thank you guy