JBoss and JAX-RPC Web Service

I have a simple web service using JAX-RPC running on JBoss 4.0.5. I have setup the service to make the web server think it is dealing with a servlet (recommended way for handling JAX-RPC). When I use Eclipse's Web Service Explorer for testing the service, I receive this error on the server:

[13:29:42,196] [ERROR] [[WebServiceImpl]] [Servlet.service() for servlet WebServiceImpl threw except
ion] 
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError 
   at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) 
   at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164) 
   at org.jboss.ws.soap.attachment.ContentHandlerRegistry.<clinit>(ContentHandlerRegistry.java:51) 
   at org.jboss.ws.xop.XOPUnmarshallerImpl.<clinit>(XOPUnmarshallerImpl.java:59) 
   at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.encoding.SimpleDeserializer.deserialize(SimpleDeserializer.java:52) 
   at org.jboss.ws.soap.SOAPContentElement.getObjectValue(SOAPContentElement.java:235) 
   at org.jboss.ws.binding.EndpointInvocation.transformPayloadValue(EndpointInvocation.java:233) 
   at org.jboss.ws.binding.EndpointInvocation.getRequestParamValue(EndpointInvocation.java:103) 
   at org.jboss.ws.binding.EndpointInvocation.getRequestPayload(EndpointInvocation.java:117) 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.ServiceEndpointInvokerJSE.invokeServiceEndpoint(ServiceEndpointInvokerJSE.
java:94) 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.ServiceEndpointInvoker.invoke(ServiceEndpointInvoker.java:115) 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.ServiceEndpoint.handleRequest(ServiceEndpoint.java:209) 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.ServiceEndpointManager.processSOAPRequest(ServiceEndpointManager.java:355)
 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.StandardEndpointServlet.doPost(StandardEndpointServlet.java:115) 
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) 
   at org.jboss.ws.server.StandardEndpointServlet.service(StandardEndpointServlet.java:76) 
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:2
52) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) 
   at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:2
02) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) 
   at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:17
5) 
   at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:74) 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) 
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) 
   at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:156) 
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve.invoke(FastCommonAccessLogValve.java:495) 
 
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) 
   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) 
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) 
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Ba
seProtocol.java:664) 
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) 
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112) 
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) 
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: failed to parse:image/bmp, image/x-bmp, image/x-windo
ws-bmp 
   at java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor.<init>(DataFlavor.java:292) 
   at javax.activation.ActivationDataFlavor.<init>(ActivationDataFlavor.java:81) 
   at org.jboss.ws.soap.attachment.ImageDataContentHandler.buildFlavors(ImageDataContentHandler.java
:77) 
   at org.jboss.ws.soap.attachment.ImageDataContentHandler.<clinit>(ImageDataContentHandler.java:63) 
   ... 37 more

JBoss.org has been no help! Any help/suggestions from here on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Well, personally for me, the easiest way for me to create Web Services is with EJB3 and @WebService @WebMethod, and then deploy in JBoss, go to the URL that will give me the soap and URL location for invocation, and use a tool like soapUI to test it out.

Mark

Mark:

Thanks for the suggestion.

When I look at the reponse within the Web Services Explorer I see this:

I've turned on the debugging for web services and I see this when the service is ran:

[11:36:14,125] [DEBUG] [SOAPMessageDispatcher] [getDispatchDestination: {http://workflow.company.com/}getDepartments]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [SOAPBindingProvider] [unbindRequestMessage: {http://workflow.company.com/}getDepartments]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [EndpointInvocation] [setRequestParamValue: [name=userId,value=org.jboss.ws.soap.SOAPContentElement]]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [EndpointInvocation] [setRequestParamValue: [name=operId,value=org.jboss.ws.soap.SOAPContentElement]]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [OperationMetaData] [Get java method for: {http://workflow.company.com/}getDepartments]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [OperationMetaData] [Found best matching java method: public abstract java.lang.String com.company.dept.product.webservice.WebServiceImpl_SEI.getDepartments(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [ServiceEndpointInvokerJSE] [invokeServiceEndpoint: getDepartments]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [OperationMetaData] [Get java method for: {http://workflow.company.com/}getDepartments]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [OperationMetaData] [Found best matching java method: public abstract java.lang.String com.company.dept.product.webservice.WebServiceImpl_SEI.getDepartments(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [EndpointInvocation] [getRequestPayload]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [EndpointInvocation] [getRequestParamValue: userId]
[11:36:14,156] [DEBUG] [SOAPContentElement] [getObjectValue [xmlType={http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string,javaType=class java.lang.String]]
[11:36:14,171] [DEBUG] [SimpleDeserializer] [deserialize: [xmlName=userId,xmlType={http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string]]
[11:36:14,484] [DEBUG] [ServiceEndpoint] [END handleRequest: jboss.ws:context=ProjectForWebService,endpoint=WebServiceImpl]
[11:36:14,484] [DEBUG] [MessageContextAssociation] [popMessageContext: org.jboss.ws.soap.SOAPMessageContextImpl@10771a6]

So we are getting to the Web Services, I make a deduction here. However, we are not completing the operation.

Russ

Is there an exception thrown?

Mark

Mark:

Yes, there is an exception. This is the stack trace I provided in the original post.

Russ