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

The problem was some missing CXF jar files in the web service deployment on the server. This was tough to debug because there were no errors on the server.