CXF web service client: “Cannot create a secure XMLInputFactory”

Question

I am wrote and deployed a CXF web service into a Tomcat server using the instructions here. The web service deploys fine as I can see the WSDL file in a web browser.

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Answer 1

I hit this issue and it was because, when i upgraded from an older version of cxf, i did not change stax-api-*.jar to stax2-api-*.jar in my client classpath.