Facing issues while using "spring-ws" to call SOAP webservices, while deploying my bundle in Fuse 6.3, the following errors occured:

I had installed the feature camel-spring-ws which installs : Apache ServiceMix :: Bundles :: spring-ws-core

Upon further investigating the error, I could see the class WebServiceTemplate is being used by the spring-ws-core bundle, which in-turn imports the package org.springframework.core;resolution:=optional;version="[4,5)".

Here the package version expected by the spring-ws-core bundle does not match the one being exported by spring-core bundle which comes with Fuse Installation.

Spring-core bundle exports org.springframework.core;version=3.2.16.RELEASE,

Hence, causing the NoClassDefFoundError for these classes.

So, I tried changing all the export versions from [4,5) to [3.5) in the Manifest file of the spring-ws-core bundle, those errors got resolved but then I came across a new error

For this, I had to explicitly install the axis2-saaj-1.5.5.jar in my karaf to make this work.

So, there are two issues here:

• The version mismatch for spring libraries
• The Sun's saaj jar being explicitly required