I see... currently the direction that's been considered the most viable is to remove the Spring libs from the AS distribution (https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8131) and ask users to install them if they need / want to use the spring configuration.
I thought WS/CXF couldn't work w/o Spring?
JBossWS-CXF can now work without Spring (well, I still need to install that jbws version to AS trunk), but everything that users would configure using Spring (basically WS-*) would not be available then. So basic jaxws funcitonalities work without spring, everything else need spring available to jbossws at deploy time and to the user deployment at runtime.