After upgrading the fixpack version in WSAS7, WSAS8, and WSAS 8.5, you will get an error similar to the following when the WSDL is generated:
WASWSDLGenera E WSWS7054E: The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file could not be generated for the com.wwwwww.xxxxx.yyyyyyy.zzzzzzz Web service implementation class because of the following error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.aaaaaa.bbbbbb.ccccccc.dddddd.eeeeeee
WSModuleDescr E WSWS7027E: JAX-WS Service Descriptions could not be correctly built because of the following error: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: WSWS7054E: The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file could not be generated for the com.wwwwww.xxxxx.yyyyyyy.zzzzzzz Web service implementation class because of the following error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.aaaaaa.bbbbbb.ccccccc.dddddd.eeeeeee
at com.ibm.ws.websvcs.wsdl.WASWSDLGenerator.generateWsdl(WASWSDLGenerator.java:238)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.impl.EndpointDescriptionImpl.generateWSDL(EndpointDescriptionImpl.java:2084)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.impl.EndpointDescriptionImpl.(EndpointDescriptionImpl.java:434)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.impl.ServiceDescriptionImpl.(ServiceDescriptionImpl.java:401)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.impl.ServiceDescriptionImpl.(ServiceDescriptionImpl.java:297)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.impl.DescriptionFactoryImpl.createServiceDescriptionFromDBCMap(DescriptionFactoryImpl.java:273)
at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.description.DescriptionFactory.createServiceDescriptionFromDBCMap(DescriptionFactory.java:524)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.aaaaaa.bbbbbb.ccccccc.dddddd.eeeeeee
...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.aaaaaa.bbbbbb.ccccccc.dddddd.eeeeeee
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:434)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassHelper(ClassLoader.java:703)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:682)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:665)
... 32 more
Applications that were previously able to generate the wsdl successfully in lower fixpack levels and WSAS versions are now getting a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.
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