Hello guys i hope somebody could help me with the following problem.


I have a Spring Struts2 web application, that i deploy on a websphere 8.5. i recently updated the Spring-WS libraries to version 2.1.1 and unfortunately after that the application couldnt start on websphere.

I get the following exception:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationExcepti on: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.ws.transport.http.HttpComponen tsMessageSender]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/apache/http/impl/conn/tsccm/ThreadSafeClientConnManager.<init>()V
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateCla ss(BeanUtils.java:162)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleIn stantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiatio nStrategy.java:87)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(Abstrac tAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:990)
... 171 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/apache/http/impl/conn/tsccm/ThreadSafeClientConnManager.<init>()V
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.HttpComponen tsMessageSender.<init>(HttpComponentsMessageSender .java:80)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInsta nce0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInsta nce(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:56)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newI nstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Construc tor.java:527)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateCla ss(BeanUtils.java:147)
... 173 more


After a little bit of research i found out that spring-ws 2.1.1 uses a new version of the httpclient libraries and that websphere was using and old version that is packed with websphere 8.5. because of this i decided to change the classloader settings and the application is now using the libraries that are packed witht the web application but now i get a different error at start

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationExcepti on: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.Anno tationActionEndpointMapping]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/xml/namespace/QName.getPrefix()Ljava/lang/String;
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateCla ss(BeanUtils.java:162)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleIn stantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiatio nStrategy.java:87)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(Abstrac tAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:990)
... 112 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/xml/namespace/QName.getPrefix()Ljava/lang/String;
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.version.Abs tractAddressingVersion.createNormalizedExpression( AbstractAddressingVersion.java:114)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.version.Abs tractAddressingVersion.<init>(AbstractAddressingVe rsion.java:87)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.Abst ractAddressingEndpointMapping.initDefaultStrategie s(AbstractAddressingEndpointMapping.java:97)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.Abst ractAddressingEndpointMapping.<init>(AbstractAddre ssingEndpointMapping.java:88)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.Abst ractActionEndpointMapping.<init>(AbstractActionEnd pointMapping.java:40)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.Anno tationActionEndpointMapping.<init>(AnnotationActio nEndpointMapping.java:60)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInsta nce0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInsta nce(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:56)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newI nstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Construc tor.java:527)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateCla ss(BeanUtils.java:147)
... 114 more

Can somebody give me a hint how to fix this?

Best Regards
Pucheteca