Spring + SOAPExceptionImpl: Error during saving a multipart message

Question

I have a spring web application with jsp pages that calls different web services and displays the results in a jsp page. The spring web application has username/login spring security attached to it.

I am adding a call to a web service that handles security. For the WebServiceGateway, I added a security interceptor. (See below)

<bean id="securityInterceptor"
 class="org.springframework.ws.soap.security.wss4j.Wss4jSecurityInterceptor">
 <property name="securementActions" value="UsernameToken Timestamp" />
 <property name="securementUsername" value="Bert" />
 <property name="securementPassword" value="Ernie" />
 <property name="timestampPrecisionInMilliseconds" value="true" />
</bean>

When I added the wss4j into my pom file, I now get the following error on the web service side:

[28-13:46:26]DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(): Could not complete request [http-8080-2]
org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageException: Could not write message to OutputStream: Error during saving a multipart message; nested exception is com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Error during saving a multipart message
    at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.writeTo(SaajSoapMessage.java:163)
    at org.springframework.ws.server.MessageDispatcher.receive(MessageDispatcher.java:172)
    at org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handleConnection(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:88)
    at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:57)
    at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.doService(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:230)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Error during saving a multipart message
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.saveChanges(MessageImpl.java:1124)
    at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.Saaj13Implementation.writeTo(Saaj13Implementation.java:268)
    at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.writeTo(SaajSoapMessage.java:159)
    ... 20 more
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to get header stream in saveChanges: 
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.saveChanges(MessageImpl.java:1101)
    ... 22 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: org.apache.xml.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler cannot be cast to org.apache.xml.serializer.SerializationHandler
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.EnvelopeImpl.output(EnvelopeImpl.java:295)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.EnvelopeImpl.output(EnvelopeImpl.java:306)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPPartImpl.getContentAsStream(SOAPPartImpl.java:302)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.getHeaderBytes(MessageImpl.java:945)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.saveChanges(MessageImpl.java:1096)
    ... 22 more

Answer 1

It may be a bit too late, but you seem to be suffering from what is described here. The Xerces implementation in Java 6 is apparently not compatible with Spring Web Services. Their solution is to start messing with endorsed libs, but this is something I would like to avoid. I have not yet found a good solution that does not involve modifying the JVM installation.

Arjen Poutsma seems to have another solution. He removed all the Xerces and Xalan dependencies. Then it works. Unless you need features from Xerces/Xalan in some other part of you web service application you could try this. Due to spam protection I cannot add the link, but it is SWS-175 (just Google it).