Hi, When iam calling a webservice running in Axis from .Net client iam getting the following exception: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in System.Web.Services.dll Additional information: java.lang.NullPointerException An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional information: java.lang.NullPointerException Iam perform two operations : 1. First i invoke addEntry to add a new purchaseorder 2. Second call the getOrder() method which will return purchaseorder type The first operation goes fine..but the second fails..when calling from .Net Both the operations works fine when called from java client... My deploy.wsdd is like the following... <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"> <service name="GetPO" provider="java:RPC" style="rpc" use="encoded"> <parameter name="wsdlTargetNamespace" value="urn:GetPO"/> <parameter name="wsdlServiceElement" value="POservice"/> <parameter name="wsdlServicePort" value="GetPO"/> <parameter name="className" value="GetPO.TestingNetSkeleton"/> <parameter name="wsdlPortType" value="PurchaseOrderBook"/> <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/> <parameter name="scope" value="session"/> <typeMapping xmlns:ns="urn:GetPO" qname="ns:purchaseorder" type="java:GetPO.Purchaseorder" serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory" deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" /> </service> </deployment> thanks in advance...