Jim Ma wrote: The Contextutils.getActionFromMessageAttributes(msgInfo)  is intended to get action value when there is no wsdl provided in service impl class(Service built from class)  CXF simply uses MessageInfo.getExtensionAttributes() != null to check if this service is built from service class (with no wsdl location provided) . There is probably some issue when the wsdl have extension to put in the extensionAttributes of MessageInfo . The NPE guard should be added in ContextUtils.getAction() .  Andrew, can you paste the  wsdl ?  Is there anything special in your wsdl file ?

@WebService(targetNamespace = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06", name = "ActivationPortType",         wsdlLocation = "/WEB-INF/wsdl/wscoor-activation-binding.wsdl",         serviceName = "ActivationService",         portName = "ActivationPortType" ) @SOAPBinding(parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.BARE) // @EndpointConfig(configName = "Standard WSAddressing Endpoint") @HandlerChain(file="/handlers.xml") @Addressing(required=true) public class ActivationPortTypeImpl implements ActivationPortType {     . . .

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:wscoor="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06" targetNamespace="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06" xmlns:wsaw="http://www.w3.org/2006/02/addressing/wsdl">   <wsdl:import       namespace="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06"       location="wscoor.wsdl" />   <wsdl:binding name="Activation_SOAPBinding" type="wscoor:ActivationPortType">     <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>     <wsdl:operation name="CreateCoordinationContextOperation">             <soap:operation soapAction="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06/CreateCo...             <wsdl:input message="wscoor:CreateCoordinationContext">                 <soap:body use="literal"/>             </wsdl:input>             <wsdl:output message="wscoor:CreateCoordinationContextResponse">                 <soap:body use="literal"/>             </wsdl:output>         </wsdl:operation>   </wsdl:binding>   <wsdl:service name="ActivationService">      <wsdl:port binding="wscoor:Activation_SOAPBinding" name="ActivationPortType">        <wsaw:UsingAddressing required="true"/>       <soap:address location="http://localhost:9000/ws-c11/ActivationService"/>     </wsdl:port>   </wsdl:service> </wsdl:definitions>

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