OK, well, I'm doing archeology into the problems that erupt when trying to use the CXF client side from inside an OpenOffice UNO extension.
Well, so far ... A call to the JAX-WS service class results in the search for the SPI file. Good news: the JAX-WS code successfully reads the file and comes up with org.apache.cxf.jaxws.spi.ProviderImpl as the name of the class. This is when things get wierd. It fails to find that class. I haven't looked as closely as I might as to whether the Sun code in the JRE is using exactly the same class loader each time.
