that looks like saaj.jar is not being found in the classpath. Vidyanand
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: class Service not working in tomcat 4.1.18 Hi Dan, Just tried that, but to no avail - however I do have a new error message Here's the modified code: <%@ page import="org.apache.axis.AxisFault, org.apache.axis.EngineConfiguration, org.apache.axis.configuration.SimpleProvider, org.apache.axis.configuration.DefaultEngineConfigurationFactory, org.apache.axis.client.Service" %> <% try { org.apache.axis.EngineConfiguration defaultConfig = (new org.apache.axis.configuration.DefaultEngineConfigurationFactory()).getCl ientEngineConfig(); org.apache.axis.configuration.SimpleProvider provider_config = new org.apache.axis.configuration.SimpleProvider(defaultConfig); org.apache.axis.client.Service service_test = new org.apache.axis.client.Service(provider_config); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } %> New Error: root cause javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/xml/soap/SOAPException at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContex tImpl.java:497) at org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspService(test_jsp.java:64) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:136) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.ja va:204) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica tionFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:260) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 80) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv e.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 80) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:241 5) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java :180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherVa lve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 80) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve. java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 80) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:43 2) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC onnection(Http11Protocol.java:386) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:53 4) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool .java:530) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) -----Original Message----- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January 2003 19:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: class Service not working in tomcat 4.1.18 You probably need to use explicit naming for the Service class. There is a org.apache.service.Service class in the catalina.jar file. When dealing with application servers or large application bases, I find it becomes necessary, good practice to use explicit naming, to avoid these types of errors.