@WebServiceRef not being invoked in migration from Spring 5 to 6

[tomasbjerre]

Affects: \6.0.13

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I am migrating code from Spring 5 to 6. This code was working in 5 but not in 6.

@Configuration
public class MyBeansProducer
{
   @Bean
   public MyDAO createDAO()
   {
      return new MyDAO();
   }
}

public class MyDAO
{
   @WebServiceRef(WSMyInterfaceHttpService.class)
   public void setRef(Ref wsRef )
   {
      this.wsRef = wsRef ;
   }
}

Problem is that setRef is never invoked.

I have found this code in Spring 5 that used to make this work:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/5.3.x/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java#L406

I'm not sure if this is a bug? If it is not a bug, I think it should be mentioned clearly somewhere in the docs.

I also asked on StackOverflow

[snicoll]

@tomasbjerre I am afraid this is to be expected. JAX-WS support has been removed in Spring Framework 6, see #27422, and the now upgraded Upgrading to Spring Framework 6.x wiki page.