I have a method that I'm calling using Axis 1.1. The method contains only a single call to a static method of another class. That method returns an object, and my SOAP-accessible method pulls a string out of that object and returns it.
Or, that's what it's supposed to do. Instead it returns an InvocationTargetException by way of a fault. If I remove the method call from my SOAP-accessible method and just return a static string, everything works fine. If I call the SOAP-accessible method outside the SOAP context (by instantiating the class directly and calling the method), everything works fine. I've tried running the server side code in a debugger (it's running under Tomcat 5), but the method just ceases execution when it gets to the static method call. Nothing is printed in the logs and I can't step through it at all. I have two questions. The first is whether I'm missing something obvious. It seems like a simple problem that I'm just missing. The second is how you do the forensics on these problems. I think the InvocationTargetException encapsulates an exception of another kind, but I'm not sure how to access it within the SOAP client code. Any ideas? getCause() on the exception won't work. Thanks, Rafe
