It turns out that it was indeed a missing class. I spent ages looking through the Axis logs looking for a problem. Eventually I switch from Tomcat to Jetty, which displayed the exception immediately. I went back and looked in the Tomcat logs, and there it was.
I'd consider Axis not catching this to be a major bug. Is it worth reporting, or will it be ignored?
I then noticed that the object being returned by Axis had all of its fields set to 0/null. I spent more ages looking through the Axis logs, when eventually I remembered that the setXXX() methods of that class were protected. After I set them to public, eveything worked. However, Axis didn't bother logging that it couldn't set the client object.
I'd consider Axis not catching this to be a major bug. Is it worth reporting, or will it be ignored?
PJDM
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