Strange behavior with AXIS2_1.3: org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: For input string: ""

[Patrick Houbaux]

Hi all, I have a weird problem that I am stuck with. Here is the situation: I have a web service client stub generated with wsdl2java using xmlbeans which works ok when I used it from a standalone application. Now I have the need to use this client stub from an application server (i.e. tomcat + axis2_1_3) from which I'm exposing other web services as well as this one. So for this web service I have both the client stub and the server skeleton on the server side (the skeleton is calling the client stub, actually passing through requests to the underlying server). The problem: I'm getting the following exception             org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: For input string: "" on the client side and nothing on the server side. When running the server in debug mode I found out that this exception is actually due to a NumberFormatException thrown by the following line in org.apache.axis2.transport.http.ProxyConfiguration:         String port = System.getProperty(HTTP_PROXY_PORT); <-- port = ""         if (port != null) {             this.setProxyPort(Integer.parseInt(port));  <-- ERROR here         } But this did not happen when using the client stub directly from a standalone application. Debugging further I noticed the following difference: In both case the method org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AbstractHTTPSender#getHostConfiguration is called but the following test is false in case of the standalone application and true in case of the server application:         if (ProxyConfiguration.isProxyEnabled(msgCtx,targetURL)) {             log.debug("ProxyConfiguration");             ProxyConfiguration proxyConfiguration = new ProxyConfiguration();             proxyConfiguration.configure(msgCtx,client,config);         } So I thought that clearing the System property ("http.proxyHost") would do the trick in the server skeleton before invoking the method from the client stub but ... this leads to another exception (this time on the server side) which I don't really understand:         [INFO] Unable to sendViaPost to url[http://vivace.qub.ac.uk/MassService.asmx]         org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: Transport error: 415 Error: Unsupported Media Type         at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender.handleResponse(HTTPSender.java:298)         at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender.sendViaPost(HTTPSender.java:192)         at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender.send(HTTPSender.java:77)         at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.writeMessageWithCommons(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:327)         at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.invoke(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:206)         at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.send(AxisEngine.java:396)         at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:374)         at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:211)         at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:163)         at uk.ac.qub.vivace.modelservice.MassServiceStub.GetPartMass(MassServiceStub.java:250) I'm now short of ideas on how to interpret this and would really appreciate some help. Any idea? What am I missing? Cheers, Patrick. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Eurostep Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]