When I browse to the /services URL, I get the following exception: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.codehaus.xfire.spring.ServiceBean#3' defined in class path resource [META-INF/xfire/services.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.codehaus.xfire.wsdl11.ResolverWSDLLocator.close()V org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:370) org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226) org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147) org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:275) org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:320) org.codehaus.xfire.spring.XFireConfigLoader.getXFireApplicationContext(XFireConfigLoader.java:107) org.codehaus.xfire.spring.XFireConfigLoader.loadContext(XFireConfigLoader.java:41) org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireConfigurableServlet.loadConfig(XFireConfigurableServlet.java:86) org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireConfigurableServlet.createXFire(XFireConfigurableServlet.java:54) org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet.init(XFireServlet.java:45) javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613) The reason is that the ResolverWSDLLocator class, introduced in XFire 1.2.2, does not implement the close() method which was added to the WSDLLocator interface in WSDL4J 1.6. I upgraded to WSDL4J 1.6 to fix XFIRE-633. I can downgrade and see if it still works, but IMO this should still be fixed at some point.