this has happened to me several times now. running Axis-beta-3 under Tomcat 4.04, when i try to run:
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient list i get the following Exception: - Exception: AxisFault faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.userException faultString: java.lang.NullPointerException faultActor: null faultDetail: stackTrace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:333) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:577) 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(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2347) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) 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:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1027) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1125) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:135) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:904) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.endElement(SAXParser.java:1403) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callEndElement(XMLValidator.java:1550) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1204) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:381) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1098) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:393) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:213) at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:457) at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:362) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2046) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2016) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1232) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(AdminClient.java:316) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(AdminClient.java:286) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.list(AdminClient.java:146) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.list(AdminClient.java:139) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(AdminClient.java:234) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.main(AdminClient.java:338) --------------------------------------------------------------------- but the "View the list of deployed Web services" link under index.html does work. any ideas? i have the source package also, and i'm pretty sure the line number doesn't match, so i don't even know where to start looking. the line number listed in the stack trace, AxisServer.java:333, only has one reference in it, tlog.debug(), and tlog has already been used well before this line is reached.