7.7. Miscellaneous Changes
Changed behaviour when providing WSDL location
If the WSDL location passed into Apache CXF is not valid (through the Java API or the XML API), previous versions of Apache CXF could in some cases ignore the error and proceed as if
null
was passed for the WSDL location. Apache CXF 3.0 now always throws an exception, if the WSDL location is invalid.