I believe that the examples were run with "axis-alpha2" so if you're running with "alpha3" then you might want to try an installation of "alpha2" first.
Anthony > Hi, > > I'm having trouble running Chapter 3 Example 2 from the otherwise > very good book "Building Web Services with Java", and since I'm > new at this it's hard to figure out where the problem is. I've setup > Tomcat 3.2.4 and the examples according to the book's example > installation instructions. Up to that point, all examples work properly. > However, when I press the "Check inventory" button on that example, > I get a java.lang.Exception: Null response message!, > the first part of which is reproduced further on below. > > It's true that during example deployment, I got this rather strange > message from Axis, which I don't know whether it's an indication > of a real problem or not (and if so, what is it?): > > Axis status messages: > Processing file: > C:\Tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\webapps\bws\resources\deploy.xml > Null response message! > Doing a list > Null response message! > > Axis deployment response: > null > Axis deployment listing: > null > > Please help. I think this book will be very useful to me for learning > about Web Services, but if this basic example doesn't run, I'm stymied. > I followed the instructions precisely, and therefore had the expectation > that the examples would work correctly, out of the box! > Oh yeah, I'm using JDK 1.3.1_02. Many thanks! -- Ivan > > Error: 500 > Location: /bws/ch3/ex2/index.jsp > Internal Servlet Error: > AxisFault > faultCode: http://xml.apache.org/axis/:Server.generalException > faultString: java.lang.Exception: Null response message! > at > org.apache.axis.client.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:582) > at > org.apache.axis.client.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:494) > at > ch3.ex2.InventoryCheckClient.doCheck(InventoryCheckClient.java:27) > at > ch_00033.ex_00032._0002fch_00033_0002fex_00032_0002findex_0002ejspindex_jsp >_0._jspService(_0002fch_00033_0002fex_00032_0002findex_0002ejspindex_jsp_0.j >ava:127) at > org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
