All, According to earlier posts the problem I am experiencing is related to Axis not being able to find certain classes.
For example, a previous poster was using Java 1.4.0 and the ENDORSED_DIRS was not pointing to the Axis jars. I was using Java 1.4.0 also and tried in vein to change setclasspath.sh in Tomcat to point to the right places but that didn't help. I figured that by reverting to Java 1.3.1 (temporarily) I could at least prove that it was/wasn't the issue. And of course it doesn't appear to be since after switching to 1.3.1 I am still experiencing the exception listed at the bottom of this message. Environment: JDK 1.3.1 and JSDK 1.4.0 Tomcat 4.0.3 (standalone) Axis Beta 2 My Axis generated skeletons/etc and application classes are located in the webapps/axis/WEB-INF/classes directory. I am using WSDL2Java to create the --server-side --skeletonDeploy classes. My deploy.wsdd (axis generated) is as follows: <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"> <!-- Services from dasEv WSDL service --> <service name="dasEvPort" provider="java:RPC"> <parameter name="className" value="com.ciphergen.g4.das.axis.server.DasEvBindingSkeleton"/> <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/> <typeMapping xmlns:ns="urn:G4_namespace" qname="ns:ArrayOfstring" type="java:java.lang.String[]" serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.ArraySerializerFactory" deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.ArrayDeserializerFactory" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" /> <typeMapping xmlns:ns="urn:G4_namespace" qname="ns:CassetteInfo" type="java:com.ciphergen.g4.das.axis.server.CassetteInfo" serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory" deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" /> </service> </deployment> If I comment out both of the typeMappings it "deploys" fine. Commenting out only one or the other doesn't allow the service to be registered (same NoSuchMethodError) exception... I suspect that axis cannot find the serializers/deserializers but I cannot figure out why since the axis jars are in the webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib directory: Contents of axis/WEB-INF/lib: total 2204 -rwxrwxr-x 800632 Apr 29 16:29 axis.jar -rwxrwxr-x 55754 Apr 29 16:29 commons-logging.jar -rwxrwxr-x 44099 Apr 29 16:29 jaxrpc.jar -rwxrwxr-x 78140 Apr 29 16:29 log4j-core.jar -rwxrwxr-x 130773 Apr 29 16:29 tt-bytecode.jar -rwxrwxr-x 143069 Apr 29 16:29 wsdl4j.jar -rw-rw-r-- 967350 Mar 13 11:54 xerces.jar I also thrashed about a bit and put them anywhere axis/tomcat/classloaders *might* look but that didn't help. In looking at the stack it seems that the TypeMappingRegistry being used doesn't implement the TypeMappingRegistry.register(String,TypeMapping) method. But I looked at the code for the TypeMappingRegistryImpl class and it does have this method... go figure. I am stuck on what could be wrong here. Has anyone had a similar problem and how did you get past it? Should I continue down this blind alley or is there something else I should look at? Thanks in advance. alan Java 1.4.0 stack trace: - Processing file deploy.wsdd - AxisFault: AxisFault faultCode: http://xml.apache.org/axis/:Server.userException faultString: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException faultActor: null faultDetail: stackTrace: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.MsgProvider.processMessage(MsgProvider.java:1 42) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:262) at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java: 71) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:154) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:121) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:288) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:576) ...snip... at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.xml.rpc.encoding.TypeMappingRegistry.register(Ljava/lang/String;Ljavax /xml/rpc/encoding/TypeMapping;)Ljavax/xml/rpc/encoding/TypeMapping; at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.ja va:429) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:549) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.validateDescriptors(WSDDService. java:201) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:184) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.java:24 1) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:123) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.processWSDD(Admin.java:222) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.process(Admin.java:300) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.AdminService(Admin.java:176) ... 43 more Java 1.3.1 stack trace: - Processing file /home/amoore/G4/wsdl/wsdd/deploy.wsdd - AxisFault: AxisFault faultCode: http://xml.apache.org/axis/:Server.userException faultString: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException faultActor: null faultDetail: stackTrace: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.ja va:429) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:549) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.validateDescriptors(WSDDService. java:201) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:184) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.java:24 1) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:123) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.processWSDD(Admin.java:222) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.process(Admin.java:300) at org.apache.axis.utils.Admin.AdminService(Admin.java:176) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.MsgProvider.processMessage(MsgProvider.java:1 42) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:262) at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java: 71) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:154) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:121) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:288) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:576) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application FilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh ain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja va:243) ...snip... at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java: 1012) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) Alan Moore - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciphergen Biosystems - http://www.ciphergen.com