Ralph, If the message is returned from the server, you should see the following string prepended to the message:
"Received problem response from server: ....." See line 123 of GetQuote.java. When I ran the same program with my tomcat server down, I got a similar exception: java.net.ConnectException. Though I got a connection refused instead of a connection timeout. I suggest you check your server side configuration again. If you are using tomcat, make sure you copy jaxrpc.jar from the axis package to the common/lib directory in tomcat. The instruction didn't mention it. Good luck. -pam -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Sakhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: installation: why a failure is actually a success. Hello axis group! I have a guess for analyzing what a problem is, and if anyone could say if they agree or if they have reason to believe i'm way off mark i would appreciate it. When I run the Step 7 from the Axis Installation Guide on the web site, which client invocation is pasted below: java samples.stock.GetQuote -lhttp://localhost:8080/axis/servlet/AxisServlet -uuser1 -wpass1 XXX I get an exception back from the server, which is pasted at the end of this message. I think that the service is working, it's just that the service needs to access a different remote site (For the xml namespace maybe) and THAT site is down. So my installation and deployment of the sample web service has succeeded. is this an accurate assessment? <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/";>ns1:Server.userException</faultcode> <faultstring>java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect</faultstring> <detail> <ns2:stackTrace xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/";>java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:161)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375)
 at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:366)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:582)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:292)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:253)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:321)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:301)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.j ava:463)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:4 54)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection .java:556)
 at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:955)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:73 1)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDocumentEntity(XMLEntityManager .java:676)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDocumentScan nerImpl.java:252)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo nfiguration.java:499)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo nfiguration.java:581)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:221)
 at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:20 9)
 at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
 at samples.stock.StockQuoteService.getQuote(StockQuoteService.java:90)
 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.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:2 29)
 at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:262)&#x d; 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)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)& #xd; at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja va:190)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:2 46)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)& #xd; at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2343)&# xd; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180 )
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:170)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170 )
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468)&#x d; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)& #xd; at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java :174)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)& #xd; at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
 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:536)
 </ns2:stackTrace> </detail>
