ConfigurationException when using attachments with axis

[Rr Kumaran]

Hi All,


I am trying to use attachment support with axis and I have
activation.jar and mail.jar in my WEB-INF\lib directory. I am using
AXIS 1.2 Final and Tomcat and I have below service registered in
server-config.wsdd file :

<service name="AttachmentService" provider="java:RPC">
       <parameter name="className" value="SparePartAttachmentService"/>
       <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="addImage"/>
       <typeMapping  qname="ns1 :mrgreen: ataHandler" xmlns:ns1="AttachmentService"
languageSpecificType="java:javax.activation.DataHandler"
serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.JAFDataHandlerSerializer"
deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.JAFDataHandlerDeserializerFactory"
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
</service>

Now when I start my tomcat I am getting below exception in my tomcat
log files. Can anyone please tell me what am I
missing here. Please suggest ...

org.apache.axis.ConfigurationException:
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDException:
java.lang.ClassCastException
java.lang.ClassCastException
       at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseSerializerFactory.createFactory(BaseSerializerFactory.java:301)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.java:534)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:245)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:225)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.java:191)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.setDocument(WSDDDocument.java:139)
       at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:65)
       at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine(FileProvider.java:179)
       at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init(AxisEngine.java:172)
       at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>(AxisEngine.java:156)
       at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>(AxisServer.java:88)
       at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:109)
       at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:73)
       at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:73)
       at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:185)
       at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getOption(AxisServletBase.java:396)
       at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.init(AxisServletBase.java:112)
       at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1044)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:887)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3959)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4284)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:866)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:850)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:638)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:320)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:875)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:727)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:477)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1008)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:394)
       at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1134)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:521)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2345)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:594)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)

Thanks & Regards,

[Balaji Loganathan]

Probably ur Tomcat might already have the activaiton.jar/mail.jar located some where within context of tomcat.
What does the happyaxis.jsp says?
try removing this newly added jars and see whats happening.