Problem installing juddi 0.9rc4 (status 500 from Tomcat)

[Mike Woinoski]

Hi. I'm trying to install juddi 0.9rc4 on Java 1.5.0, Tomcat 5.0 (actually, the 
tomcat50-jwsdp version bundled with the JWSDP libraries) and MySQL 4.1. I did 
the following steps:
        Installed the juddi webapp
        Ran the create_database.sql script
        Add a user with publisher_id 'juddi' to the Publisher table
        Modified server.xml
Now the Happy jUDDI page displays correctly and shows that all libraries are 
present and juddi is able to connect to the DB. However, any requests to 
http://localhost:8080/juddi/inquiry return a server status 500 due to a 
NullPointerException in org.apache.juddi.registry.AbstractService.doPost (line 344).

I saw some older posts discussing similar problems caused by incompatibilities 
with juddi 0.9 and Java 1.5. Is that still a problem? If so, is there a 
work-around? (I need to use Java 1.5 and JWSDP 1.6 for this project.)

Thanks,
Mike