packaging multiple modules into spring-ws-xx-all.jar breaks handler loading mechanism [SWS-454]

[gregturn]

hakan eryargi opened SWS-454 and commented

two different jar files contains META-INF/spring.handlers file which define spring handlers (spring-oxm-xx.jar, spring-ws-core-xx.jar). these jars and some others are bundled into a single jar file spring-ws-xx-all.jar. when using spring-ws-xx-all.jar in our classpath, spring complains saying:

Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm

this happens since jvm picks one of the META-INF/spring.handlers per jar file and ignores the others.

workaround is to use seperate module files instead of spring-ws-xx-all.jar

solution is merging META-INF/spring.handlers files from different jars into a single one and including it in spring-ws-xx-all.jar

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Affects: 1.5.5

Issue Links:

• All-in-one jar doesn't contain correct spring.handlers [SWS-360] #512 All-in-one jar doesn't contain correct spring.handlers
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[gregturn]

Arjen Poutsma commented

Closing old issues