The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'jaxrs:client'.
The Answer is in the Migration Guide 3.0 Migration Guide JAX-RS JAX-RS 2.0 has been completely implemented. JAX-RS WADL auto-generation code has been moved to a new cxf-rt-rs-service-description module. JAX-RS 2.0 Client API and CXF specific WebClient and Proxy client code is now available in a new cxf-rt-rs-client module. Important: the namespace for jaxrs:client elements has changed from "http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs" to "http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs-client " CXF RequestHandler and ResponseHandler filters have been removed, please use JAX-RS 2.0 ContainerRequestFilter and ContainerResponseFilter and also WriterInterceptor and ReaderInterceptor when needed. CXF JAX-RS Form extension has been dropped, please use JAX-RS 2.0 Form. CXF JAX-RS ParameterHandler has been dropped, please use JAX-RS 2.0 ParamConverterProvider. javax.annotation.Resource annotation can no longer be used to annotate JAX-RS context properties. Only javax.ws.rs.core.Context annotat...