What does your tomcat.sh modification look like? I believe I had a similar problem when I tried to add the soap.jar to the classpath within the tomcat.sh. You probably have a classpath issue, or possible conflict with soap.jar. Also, I have experienced some troubles trying the server.xml approach setting with Tomcat 3.3, and have found the soap.war install approach to work best.
Vibha Sridhar wrote: >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:353) > > 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:917) > > at >org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833) > at >org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10Interceptor.java:176) > > at >org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494) > > at >org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java: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 > >
