[CXF-8539] Allow client-only Spring Boot autoconfiguration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.3, 3.3.11
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0, 3.3.12, 3.4.5
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Andriy Redko
• Reporter: Roland Müller
• Created: 20/May/21 12:26
• Updated: 22/Dec/21 20:41
• Resolved: 18/Aug/21 02:09

Description

We have an application that uses CXF as a SOAP client. I want to enable Micrometer instrumentation, so I added the cxf-spring-boot-autoconfigure dependency for not having to configure everything manually. The CxfAutoConfiguration automatically registers a servlet which we do not want since we are client-only. I added

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {CxfAutoConfiguration.class})

so that only the MicrometerMetricsAutoConfiguration is active. But this does not work, I get

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'org.apache.cxf.spring.boot.autoconfigure.CxfProperties' available

Would it possible to either introduce a property to disable the servlet instantiation, or change the MicrometerMetricsAutoConfiguration so that it is not dependent on CxfAutoConfiguration?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #834