I have the same exception thrown on JBoss 5.1 when I run wsprovide to generate the wsdl and server classes.
Did you get this resolved? can you please post how?
Here's my exception.
C:\Projects\BOR\ETASWS\ETAS-Service-2.0\ETASWS\build\classes>wsprovide -t -k -w -o c:\Projects\BOR\ETASWS\ETAS-Service-2.0\ETASWS\src\gov\usbr\ws\jaxw
s\ gov.usbr.ws.ETAS
Output directory: c:\Projects\BOR\ETASWS\ETAS-Service-2.0\ETASWS\src\gov\usbr\ws\jaxws
Source directory: c:\Projects\BOR\ETASWS\ETAS-Service-2.0\ETASWS\src\gov\usbr\ws\jaxws
Generating WSDL:
Error: Could not generate. (use --show-traces to see full traces)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot build JAXB context
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.createJAXBContext(JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.java:984)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.buildWebServiceMetaData(JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.java:154)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderImpl.provide(JBossWSProviderImpl.java:108)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderImpl.provide(JBossWSProviderImpl.java:124)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.cmd.WSProvide.generate(WSProvide.java:183)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.cmd.WSProvide.main(WSProvide.java:76)
Caused by: org.jboss.ws.WSException: Failed to create JAXBContext
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.createContext(CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.java:114)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.createJAXBContext(JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.java:980)
... 5 more
Caused by: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 2 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
java.io.Serializable is an interface, and JAXB can't handle interfaces.
this problem is related to the following location:
at java.io.Serializable
at public java.io.Serializable gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet.getEmpSigned()
at gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet
at public gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet gov.usbr.data.etas.Employee.getTimesheet()
at gov.usbr.data.etas.Employee
at private gov.usbr.data.etas.Employee gov.usbr.ws.jaxws.GetEmployeeResponse._return
at gov.usbr.ws.jaxws.GetEmployeeResponse
java.io.Serializable does not have a no-arg default constructor.
this problem is related to the following location:
at java.io.Serializable
at public java.io.Serializable gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet.getEmpSigned()
at gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet
at public gov.usbr.data.etas.Timesheet gov.usbr.data.etas.Employee.getTimesheet()