Problems installing axis with WebLogic 8.1

[Nige Smith]

I'm having problems installing Apache Axis with WLS 8.1. <br>

I'm totally new to WLS, so this may be at the heart of the problem. <br>

I install Axis as per the installation instructions.

These are the steps I followed:

1. Installed the axis directory to
[pre]C:\bea\weblogic81\samples\domains\examples\applications\axis[/pre]

2. Added xml-apis.jar and xercesImpl.jar to the AXISCLASSPATH ( the complete AXISCLASSPATH is
[pre]C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\wsdl4j.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\axis-ant.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\commons-discovery.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\commons-logging.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\jaxrpc.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\log4j.properties;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\saaj.jar;C:\axis-1_2RC2\lib\axis.jar;C:\javasoft\javamail-1.3.2\mail.jar;C:\javasoft\javamail-1.3.2\lib\smtp.jar;C:\javasoft\javamail-1.3.2\lib\mailapi.jar;C:\javasoft\javamail-1.3.2\lib\pop3.jar;C:\javasoft\javamail-1.3.2\lib\imap.j ar;C:\javasoft\jaf-1.0.2\activation.jar;C:\javasoft\Xerces\xerces-2_5_0\xercesImpl.jar;C:\javasoft\Xerces\xerces-2_5_0\xml-apis.jar)[/pre]

3.Added weblogic.xml file to [pre]C:\bea\weblogic81\samples\domains\examples\applications\axis\WEB-INF\weblogic.xml[/pre]
as per instructions with [pre]<prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>[/pre]

4. Started the examples server.

5. I then tried to validate the installation as per intructions using [/url]
Everything looks OK with the Axis start page displayed.

6. tried happyaxis.jsp . All needed components are present with saaj.jar being picked up from :
Found SAAJ API (javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage) at [pre]C:\bea\weblogic81\samples\domains\examples\examplesServer\.wlnotdelete\extract\examplesServer__appsdir_axis_dir_axis\jarfiles\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar[/pre]

7. I missing optional component xmlsec.jar

8. Now the trouble starts!!!

pretty much anything I try now comes back with:
[pre]
AXIS error

Sorry, something seems to have gone wrong... here are the details:

Exception - java.lang.NullPointerException
[/pre]
I get this if I try:



or



or

[url=http://localhost:7001/axis/services/Version?wsdl]


So, what's going wrong? I cant think what to do next. Please help! I need this to work fairly urgently.

Nigel

PS. here's the NP exception in detail
[pre]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.ChainingEntityResolver.popEntityResolver(ChainingEn
tityResolver.java:61)
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistryDocumentBuilder.setEntityResolver(RegistryD
ocumentBuilder.java:168)
at org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils.releaseDocumentBuilder(XMLUtils.java:2
35)
at org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils.newDocument(XMLUtils.java:312)
at org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils.StringToElement(XMLUtils.java:485)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.addFaultDetail(AxisFault.java:654)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.addHostname(AxisFault.java:888)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.addHostnameIfNeeded(AxisFault.java:877)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.initFromException(AxisFault.java:280)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.<init>(AxisFault.java:181)
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.generateWSDL(AxisServer.java:487)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSWSDLHandler.invoke(QSWSDLHandler.jav
a:62)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.processQuery(AxisServlet.j
ava:1132)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doGet(AxisServlet.java:233
)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBas
e.java:301)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run
(ServletStubImpl.java:1006)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:419)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:315)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationActio
n.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6718)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate
dSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:
121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppSe
rvletContext.java:3764)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestIm
pl.java:2644)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
[/pre]