My current web service implementation works fine with Jax-ws , ant and jdk-1.7. My requirement is to migrate from jdk 1.7 to jdk 1.8. But when I am using jdk 1.8 to build , I am getting error when generating wsdl using ant task wsgen as : java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/mirror/apt/AnnotationProcessorFactory
On web search found , jdk 8 does not support apt tool any more , need to migrate to annotation processing API . Following is the only link I found with proper guidance on how to have an ant task for it and implement.
https://jax-ws.java.net/nonav/2.2.6/docs/ch04.html#tools-annotation-processing-ant-task
But When I used this and resolved all the compiling issues , now there is file generated in the destination place. Also seems there is no support for wsdl creation in this process.
My full build/web-service process is dependent on apt/wsgen/wsimport. How I can properly migrate them into jdk 1.8 ?
Is there any proper documentation or link to follow to overcome it ?
Code snippet of my wsgen task below :
<taskdef name="wsgen" classname="com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsGen">
<classpath refid="project.classpath"/>
</taskdef>
<wsgen resourcedestdir="${smruti.wsdl.dir}"
sei="com.smruti.webservice.SmrutiWebService"
keep="true"
sourcedestdir="${smruti.wsdl.dir}\src"
destdir="${build.dir}"
genwsdl="true">
<classpath>
<path refid="project.classpath"/>
<pathelement location="${build.dir}"/>
</classpath>
</wsgen>
Which JAX-WS version are you using? Implementation of
com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsGen
has been adapted to new annotation processing API a while ago. Upgrading JAX-WS should resolve the issue.