When add the WSAddressingServerHandler for provider based endpoint , it raises the following error :

ERROR [org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.HandlerChainExecutor] Exception during handler processing
javax.xml.ws.addressing.AddressingException: Required addressing property missing:

{http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing}

Action
at org.jboss.ws.extensions.addressing.soap.SOAPAddressingPropertiesImpl.appendRequiredHeader(SOAPAddressingPropertiesImpl.java:304)
at org.jboss.ws.extensions.addressing.soap.SOAPAddressingPropertiesImpl.writeHeaders(SOAPAddressingPropertiesImpl.java:257)
at org.jboss.ws.extensions.addressing.jaxws.WSAddressingServerHandler.handleResponseOrFault(WSAddressingServerHandler.java:156)
at org.jboss.ws.extensions.addressing.jaxws.WSAddressingServerHandler.handleOutbound(WSAddressingServerHandler.java:92)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.GenericHandler.handleMessage(GenericHandler.java:55)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.HandlerChainExecutor.handleMessage(HandlerChainExecutor.java:295)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.HandlerChainExecutor.handleMessage(HandlerChainExecutor.java:140)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.HandlerDelegateJAXWS.callResponseHandlerChain

JAXWSProviderMetaDataBuilder does not process the WSA information add generate AddressingOpMetaExt. This will cause the required outbound action in SoapAddressingProperties not set , see the following WSAddressingServerHandler code segment :

OperationMetaData opMetaData = ((SOAPMessageContextJAXRPC)msgContext).getOperationMetaData();

if (!isFault && !opMetaData.isOneWay())
{

AddressingOpMetaExt addrExt = (AddressingOpMetaExt)opMetaData.getExtension(ADDR_CONSTANTS.getNamespaceURI());
if (addrExt != null)

{ outProps.setAction(ADDR_BUILDER.newURI(addrExt.getOutboundAction())); }

else

{ log.warn("Unable to resolve replyAction for " + opMetaData.getQName()); }

}