Spring Boot 2.3.3 SOAP Web Service WS Security Compilation Issue - spring-boot

Question

I'm trying to secure my SOAP Web Service using User name and password but after adding ws security is not compilng with below error
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'annotationActionEndpointMapping' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/ws/config/annotation/DelegatingWsConfiguration.class]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.ws.soap.addressing.server.AnnotationActionEndpointMapping]: Factory method 'annotationActionEndpointMapping' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'securityInterceptor' defined in class path resource [com/user/sms/WebServiceConfig.class]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.ws.soap.security.xwss.XwsSecurityInterceptor]: Factory method 'securityInterceptor' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/xml/wss/XWSSecurityException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:655) ~[spring-beans-5.2.8.RELEASE.jar:5.2.8.RELEASE]
this is complete POM
...
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.3.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
... <dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web-services</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ws-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
...
WebServiceConfig
#Configuration
#EnableWs
public class WebServiceConfig extends WsConfigurerAdapter {
#Bean
public XwsSecurityInterceptor securityInterceptor() {
XwsSecurityInterceptor securityInterceptor = new XwsSecurityInterceptor();
securityInterceptor.setCallbackHandler(callbackHandler());
securityInterceptor.setPolicyConfiguration(new ClassPathResource("securityPolicy.xml"));
return securityInterceptor;
}
#Bean
public SimplePasswordValidationCallbackHandler callbackHandler() {
SimplePasswordValidationCallbackHandler callbackHandler = new SimplePasswordValidationCallbackHandler();
callbackHandler.setUsersMap(Collections.singletonMap("admin", "pwd123"));
return callbackHandler;
}
...
}

Answer 1

This will make it works
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ws-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.wss</groupId>
<artifactId>xws-security</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>javax.xml.crypto</groupId>
<artifactId>xmldsig</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>