HELP: JSP calling Web Services

Hi,

I'm new to webservices. I'm currently running Apache Tomcat 4.1 with Axis on FreeBSD to deploy my web services. Right now I'm using *.jws files to deploy and have successfully generated stubs for my code. I have also created a client to call my webservice. All this works fine when invoking the web service client from command line, however, the problem comes when i try to call the client file from jsp.

I get the following error when doing this:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax/xml/rpc/Service
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:254)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter
.
.
.
etc...

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/xml/rpc/Service
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:536)
at org.apache.jsp.test_main1_jsp._jspService(test_main1_jsp.java:102)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:210)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
.
.
.
etc...

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Here is my client code which i'm trying to invoke:

import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
import org.apache.axis.encoding.XMLType;
import org.apache.axis.utils.Options;

import javax.xml.rpc.ParameterMode;

public class AuthenticateClient1
{
public String authenticateClient(String username, String passwd, String db_name) throws Exception {
String host = "http://localhost:";
String servicepath = "/axis/Jws_Interface/Authenticate.jws";
//Options options = new Options(args);
int port = 8180;
String endpoint = host + port + servicepath;
String method = "authenticating";

//args = options.getRemainingArgs();

String op1 = username;
String op2 = passwd;
String op3 = db_name;

String ret = null;
Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call) service.createCall();

call.setTargetEndpointAddress(new java.net.URL (endpoint));
call.setOperationName(method);

if (op1 != null && op2 != null && op3 != null) {
call.addParameter("op1", XMLType.XSD_STRING, ParameterMode.IN);
call.addParameter("op2", XMLType.XSD_STRING, ParameterMode.IN);
call.addParameter("op3", XMLType.XSD_STRING, ParameterMode.IN);
call.setReturnType(XMLType.XSD_STRING);
ret = (String) call.invoke(new Object [] {op1,op2,op3});
}

return ret;
}

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
AuthenticateClient1 auth = new AuthenticateClient1();
String result = auth.authenticateClient(args[0], args[1], args[2]);
System.out.println(result);
}
}

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Here's my jsp code which i'm invoking from:

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"%>
<%@ page import="AuthenticateClient1"%>
<%@ page import="org.w3c.dom.*" %>
<%@ page import="org.w3c.dom.Text" %>
<%@ page import="org.apache.axis.client.*"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>
Web Service JSP Client - Scriptlet
</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
String parm1 = request.getParameter("parm1");
String result = "";
if (parm1 == null)
parm1 = " ";
%>
<br>
<form action="test_main2.jsp" method=get>
<table border="0">
<tr>
<td>
Greeting:</b>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="parm1" size="14" value="<%=parm1 %>">
</td>
<td>
<input type="Submit" value="Submit"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<p>
<br>
<%
try{
AuthenticateClient1 auth = new AuthenticateClient1();
result = auth.authenticateClient(parm1, parm1, parm1);
}
catch (Exception e) {
result = "Web service unreachable tonight :-(";
}
%>
The response returned is: <%=result %>
</body>
</html>

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any help will be greatly appreciated

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. I have a jsp calling a bean that in turn calls a web service, but all I got is this (useless) stack trace (please convince me otherwise!). I soon realised that the exception is thrown when the bean is called (precisely, in this line: <jsp:useBean id="jp" class="jpath.JPathBeanWS" scope="session" /> )

What's more weird is that I made two other versions of this same program and both worked: first i replaced the jsp client for a comand line one and everything was fine; then i put the "service" into the bean and had no problem at all too. So I ruled out most common mistakes.I also replaced the jsp:usebean for a scriptlet calling the bean so I could catch a more precise exception (in the code below), but to no avail.

So, please, what i'm overlooking?

Cesar

Here's the jsp:

<HTML>

<HEAD><TITLE>Java Package</TITLE></HEAD>

<BODY>
<%--
<jsp:useBean id="jp" class="jpath.JPathBeanWS" scope="session" />
<jsp:setProperty name="jp" property="classe" />
--%>

<%

try{

jpath.JPathBeanWS jp = new jpath.JPathBeanWS();

jp.setClasse("java.lang.String");

String respP = jp.getPack();
String respC = jp.getClasse();

if (respC != null) out.println("<H3> " + respP + "</H3>" );

}catch(Exception e){
out.println("QUALQUER COISA"+e);
if(e instanceof javax.servlet.ServletException)
{
Throwable et;
et = ((javax.servlet.ServletException)e).getRootCause();
if(et!=null&&et instanceof Exception)
{
out.println("QUALQUER COISA"+(Exception)et);
}
}
}

%>

<H2> Enter the full name of the class </H2>
<H3> (e.g. java.lang.String) </H3>
<BR>

<FORM METHOD=POST>

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="classe" >
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT">

</FORM>

<BR>

<%

String respP = jp.getPack();
String respC = jp.getClasse();

if (respC != null) out.println("<H3> " + respP + "</H3>" );

%>

</BODY>
</HTML>

And here's the bean:

package jpath;

import jpath.local.*;
import org.apache.axis.AxisFault;
import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

public class JPathBeanWS {

public JPathBeanWS(){ }

private String classe;
private String pack;

public void setClasse(String _classe){ classe = _classe; }
public String getClasse() {return classe;}

public String getPack () {
if (classe != null)
pack = this.javaPath( classe );
else
pack = "";
return pack;
}

private String javaPath(String className) {
String s = "test";
try

{
JPathService service = new JPathServiceLocator();
JPath port = service.getJPath();

s = (port.javaPath(className));
}
catch(AxisFault af) { System.err.println("An Axis Fault occurred: " + af);}
catch(Exception e) { System.err.println("Exception caught: " + e);}

return s;
}

}

I don't think you are seeing the true cause of the exception. Try to catch it earlier and do exception.printStackTrace( System.err );
Bill