Hi All I have a doc style WS, with some custom types, which I deploy as a WAR file. If I turn on the DEBUG option for Axis in the log4j.properties, I can see the following exception in my tomcat 5.0.28 (Axis verison 1.2-RC1):
09:51:21,949 DEBUG ProjectResourceBundle:72 - org.apache.axis.i18n.resource::handleGetObject(exception00) 09:51:21,949 DEBUG BaseDeserializerFactory:210 - Exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory.create(java.lang.Cl ass, javax.xml.namespace.QName) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:978) at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseDeserializerFactory.createFactory(BaseD eserializerFactory.java:203) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDServic e.java:536) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:245 ) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:225) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.jav a:204) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.setDocument(WSDDDocument.ja va:139) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:65 ) at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine(FileProvider. java:176) at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init(AxisEngine.java:162) at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>(AxisEngine.java:146) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>(AxisServer.java:87) at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer(DefaultAxis ServerFactory.java:109) at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer(DefaultAxisSer verFactory.java:73) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:72) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase .java:183) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getOption(AxisServletBase .java:370) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.init(AxisServletBase.java :110) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.jav a:1029) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:862) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.j ava:4013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4357 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.ja va:823) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeploy er.java:277) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:625) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:431) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:34 9) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu pport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) Although the service does not fall over - and works reasonably well. Can anyone please tell me what this exception means? Regards Arijit "And when the night is cloudy, There is still a light that shines on me, Shine on until tomorrow, let it be. " John Lennon/Paul McCartney