java - CXF 2.4.2: No conduit initiator was found for the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http

Question

I have a service client generated from wsdl. I am trying to call the remote service and I recieve the conduit initiator error seen below. I have tried numerous solutions without success.

I found solutions (old posts) that recommend using the http-jetty extensions. I do not believe this makes sense for me because the server is not running locally.

I've also found that closest configuration that helps me is an example cxf.xml file that contains:

<bean class="org.apache.cxf.transport.local.LocalTransportFactory"
    lazy-init="false">
    <property name="transportIds">
        <list>
            <value>http://cxf.apache.org/transports/local</value>
            <value>http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http</value>
            <value>http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http</value>
            <value>http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/http</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

This configuration provides guidance on how to configure a transport factory and bind it to http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http . When I try this with the HTTPTransportFactory, I receive an exception that it cannot be initialized (no such method error).

Caused by: org.apache.cxf.BusException: No conduit initiator was found for the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http.
    at org.apache.cxf.transport.ConduitInitiatorManagerImpl.getConduitInitiator(ConduitInitiatorManagerImpl.java:112)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.AbstractConduitSelector.getSelectedConduit(AbstractConduitSelector.java:73)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.UpfrontConduitSelector.prepare(UpfrontConduitSelector.java:61)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.prepareConduitSelector(ClientImpl.java:708)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:476)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:309)
    at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:261)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:73)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:127)

precaution: At this point, I will stop my attempt to upgrade my CXF client to 2.4.2 and fall back to the oldest version that works (2.2 series). This is not ideal.

I would like to move forward with the upgrade. Any suggestions regarding how to configure CXF 2.4.X so that my client-only HTTP SOAP configuration wires correctly would be much appriciated.

Answer 1

Like recommended by the old posts, this is solved by adding cxf-rt-transports-http-jetty into the mix.