Hi Vibha You don't need to find parser.jar file, simply set the classpath in such a way that xerces.jar is the first entry in the classpath.
Virender ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vibha Sridhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: Re: Apache Soap RPCRouter problems > > Hello Christian Dutaret, > > Thanks for the response. > > I checked in the entire <TOMCAT_INSTALL> directory and i do not find any > "parser.jar" file there. > Does Tomcat 3.3.1 has some other name for this file? As i find "tomcat.jar" in > <TOMCAT_INSTALL>/lib directory. > > Let me know. > > thanks > VS > > > Christian Dutaret wrote: > > > This sounds like an XML parser version > > > > Tomcat 3.x uses a JAXP 1.0 parser (parser.jar) which has some different > > method signatures as a jaxp 1.1 compliant parser like xerces. > > If you put xerces.jar in your tomcat/lib directory, it won't be seen as > > tomcat sets its classpath in alphabetic order. Any caller expecting a jaxp > > 1.1 method will call the jaxp1.0 method instead and fail. > > > > Just try to put all soap related jars in tomcat/lib directory, then rename > > parser.jar to zparser.jar and restart tomcat. This should do the trick. > > > > Otherwise you can switch to Tomcat 4, which uses a jaxp1.1 parser. > > > > Hope this helps > > Ch. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Vibha Sridhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:06 PM > > Subject: Apache Soap RPCRouter problems > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I would really appreciate if someone can help me solve this problem > > > related to running a simple Apache SOAP Sample. > > > > > > I downloaded and installed the following > > > > > > a)Apache Web Server > > > b)Jakarta Tomcat 3.3.1 > > > c)Apache SOAP 2.2 and all the related JAR files like Xerces, Activation > > > etc. > > > > > > I followed instructions as detailed in the web site. > > > > > > I could successfully deploy the web service. The URL > > > http://localhost:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter works fine. > > > > > > But when i trying to run the Greetings sample client, i get the > > > following error - > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Protocol; msg=Unsupported response > > > content type "text/html", must be: "text/xml". Respon > > > se was: > > > <head><title>Error: 500</title></head> > > > <body> > > > <h1>Error: 500</h1> > > > <h2>Location: /soap/servlet/rpcrouter</h2><b>Internal Servlet > > > Error:</b><br> > > > <pre>javax.servlet.ServletException: Error building response envelope: > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > at > > > > > org.apache.soap.server.http.RPCRouterServlet.doPost(RPCRouterServlet.java:35 > > 3) > > > > > > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > > > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > > > at > > > org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:574) > > > > > > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:322) > > > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:235) > > > at > > > org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:485) > > > > > > at > > > > > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:91 > > 7) > > > > > > at > > > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833) > > > at > > > > > org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10I > > nterceptor.java:176) > > > > > > at > > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494) > > > > > > at > > > > > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav > > a:516) > > > > > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) > > > </pre> > > > </body> > > > ] > > > at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.getEnvelopeString(Call.java:175) > > > at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.invoke(Call.java:212) > > > at GreeterClient.main(GreeterClient.java:22) > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException > > > at GreeterClient.main(GreeterClient.java:31) > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > I went to the "troubleshooting" site of Apache SOAP and the solution > > > suggested for this kind of error was not of much help. > > > > > > I am stuck with this problem for quite sometime now and would appreciate > > > if anyone can throw some light on this. > > > > > > thanks > > > VS > > > > > > > > > >
