Spring property place holder is not resolving in jaxws:client (cxf) address property - spring

Question

Environment:
Spring MVC : 4.1.7.RELEASE
CXF: 3.0.0
java: 1.8
web.xml --- loads appContext.xml (spring cofigs) & cxfContext.xml (configs for cxf)
spring-servlet.xml --- loading the spring mvc configs.
I'm using the below way to load the properties file.
#Configuration
#PropertySource(value = { "classpath:config.properties" })
public class Configuration {
#Bean
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() {
return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}
}
Properties are getting resolved and no issues except in one case.
I'm using CXF for webservices and the address property is not getting resolved when "${addressVal}" is used. All other properties inside the xml are gettign loaded except for "jaxws:client".
<jaxws:client id="port"
serviceClass="com.service.Myclass"
address="${addressVal}" />
Where is the problem. What I'm doing wrong.
Problem with servlet context / application context loading ?
Please advice.

Answer 1

I am having the same problem. Sadly no solution found yet. However, for anyone finding this question, a workaround is using the JaxWsProxyFactoryBean.
Example:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schema/jaxws.xsd">
<bean id="client" class="demo.spring.service.HelloWorld" factory-bean="clientFactory" factory-method="create"/>
<bean id="clientFactory" class="org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="serviceClass" value="demo.spring.service.HelloWorld"/>
<property name="address" value="${some.property.value}"/>
</bean>
It is not as nice, becuase you have to inject the factory, call create() and cast, but at least it works.
#Autowired
#Qualifier("clientFactory")
private JaxWsProxyFactoryBean factory;
public void callService() {
HelloWorld helloWorld = (demo.spring.service.HelloWorld)factory.create();
}
You can also add the following to your spring config to create a specific bean, but that did not work for me. Trying to inject that bean failed, which is why I settled on the method described above.
<bean id="client" class="demo.spring.service.HelloWorld" factory-bean="clientFactory" factory-method="create"/>
See also http://cxf.apache.org/docs/writing-a-service-with-spring.html at the bottom of the page