IllegalAnnotationException: Two classes have the same XML type name

I am developing web service under JBoss 5 and Java 1.6. What could possibly cause this exception? Below is my simplified web service code.

@Stateless
@WebService()
public class AccountWS {

@WebMethod()
public CreateAccountResponse createAccount(@WebParam(name = "request") CreateAccountRequest request) {
    return null;
}

And below is the full stack trace.

16:19:03,421 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Real: name=vfsfile:/C:/Apps/jbdevstudio/jboss-eap/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/sif_esb.esb/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error during deploy: vfsfile:/C:/Apps/jbdevstudio/jboss-eap/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/sif_esb.esb/
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:177)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1440)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1158)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1099)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1633)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:935)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1083)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:985)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:823)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:782)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:403)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1633)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:935)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1083)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:985)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:775)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:540)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256)
at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot build JAXB context
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.createJAXBContext(JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.java:984)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.buildWebServiceMetaData(JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.java:151)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.setupProviderOrWebService(JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.java:50)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderEJB3.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderEJB3.java:76)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.start(UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.java:69)
at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:129)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:76)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.AbstractWebServiceDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractWebServiceDeployer.java:60)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.WebServiceDeployerEJB.internalDeploy(WebServiceDeployerEJB.java:113)
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
... 29 more
Caused by: org.jboss.ws.WSException: Failed to create JAXBContext
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.createContext(CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.java:114)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.createJAXBContext(JAXWSMetaDataBuilder.java:980)
... 39 more
Caused by: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 1 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
Two classes have the same XML type name "{http://kona.webservice.sif.unidata.com/}createAccountResponse". Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them.
this problem is related to the following location:
    at com.unidata.sif.kona.account.message.CreateAccountResponse
    at private com.unidata.sif.kona.account.message.CreateAccountResponse com.unidata.sif.webservice.kona.jaxws.CreateAccountResponse._return
    at com.unidata.sif.webservice.kona.jaxws.CreateAccountResponse
this problem is related to the following location:
    at com.unidata.sif.webservice.kona.jaxws.CreateAccountResponse

at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException$Builder.check(IllegalAnnotationsException.java:102)
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:448)
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:297)
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:139)
at com.sun.xml.bind.api.JAXBRIContext.newInstance(JAXBRIContext.java:105)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.createContext(CustomizableJAXBContextFactory.java:108)
... 40 more

Answer

I found the cause of my problem.

This problem occurs because JAX-WS generates a class for each method and the class name is constructed by concatenating methodName + "Response". In my case, the newly generated class by JAX-WS will have the same name as my response object.

Example:

@Stateless
@WebService()
public class AccountWS {

    @WebMethod()
    public CreateAccountResponse createAccount(@WebParam(name = "request") CreateAccountRequest request) {
        return null;
    }
}

JAX-WS will generate a new class CreateAccountResponse for Web Method createAccount which has the same name as the response object.

Solution:

Make sure that the name of the response object and method doesn’t match. The same thing applies to the method parameter as well.