+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1150931 +++ Description of problem: Platform BZ for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5753 Since EAP 6.2.2, when a JAX-WS handler is configured on a WS endpoint even though it's an empty handler, SOAP requests like the following one start to face "Unmarshalling Error". <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <hello xmlns="http://ws.samples.redhat.com/"> <name xmlns="">SoapUI</name> </hello> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> Note how the default xml namespace is declared for both <hello> and <name>. However the soap request above might be invalid with regard to SOAP spec, until EAP 6.2.1 the same SOAP request worked so it should be a regression bug. The same issue was reported and already fixed at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5753. I confirmed that in fact the issue is resolved since CXF 2.7.12, so simply upgrading CXF to latest 2.7.x would fix the issue as well on EAP. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Apache CXF 2.7.10 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Deploy the attached reproducer to EAP. 2. Send the above SOAP message to the endpoint using SoapUI. Actual results: Got the following error. WARNING [org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1) Interceptor for {http://ws.samples.redhat.com/}GreetingServiceService#{http://ws.samples.redhat.com/}hello has thrown exception, unwinding now: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Unmarshalling Error: unexpected element (uri:"http://ws.samples.redhat.com/", local:"name"). Expected elements are <{}name> ... Caused by: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"http://ws.samples.redhat.com/", local:"name"). Expected elements are <{}name> Expected results: Response should be returned successfully.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1135578 ***