I've received the samer error for the past few days under Tomcat 4.0.1 and have not been able to track it down.
----- Original Message ----- From: "doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:59 PM Subject: AdminClient throwing NullPointerException > 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(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) > 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.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: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) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) > 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:5 66) > 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:13 5) > at > org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(Deserializati onContextImpl.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(XM LDocumentScanner.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(DeserializationCon textImpl.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. >