I've been getting the following exception when I run the ServiceManagerClient, which, for the life of me, can't resolve. 9:35am turner@darwin ~/src/omnigene/edu/mit/wi/omnigene/soap/examples/SearchProjectList > java org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient http://darwin:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter deploy DeploymentDescriptor.xml Exception in thread "main" [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client; msg=Parsing error, response was: The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.; targetException=org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.] at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.invoke(Call.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient.invokeMethod(ServiceManagerClient.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient.deploy(ServiceManagerClient.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient.main(ServiceManagerClient.java, Compiled Code) My system is configured the following way: Unix JDK1.3.0 JAXP1.1 SOAP2.2 JavaMail1.2 JAF1.0.1 Xerces1.4.1 Tomcat4.0beta I've also attempted the above configuration on Linux (ReadHat 7.1) using JDK1.4beta, and got a slightly different error: "The root element is missing" exception. I've managed to following the code to the point were I believe the problem is occurring. The soap request is good, but when the response comes back the soap envelope is incomplete so closing tags are missing, which would explain the parsing error. The problem is that I can't trace what's causing this on the server side. I've check to insure that my classpath is correct and that I'm not conflicting with any other parsers. I NEED SUGGESTIONS! This problem has been ongoing for the entire week. Any help would be greatly appreciated.