I have a vanilla install of Tomcat(5.0.19) and Axis(1.1) and have been working through some of the examples to try to get an idea of performance (vs. xmlrpc).
To test using samples/userguide/example3, I have created two testing classes: TestThread (extends Thread:) which calls samples.userguide.example3.Client.main( args ) from it's run method and Test which simply starts 10 TestThread threads. Occasionally (1 in 10) I will get a NullPointerException for the first 2-5 threads often accompanied by: org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1 run SEVERE: Unable to locate a valid EngineConfigurationFactory java.lang.NullPointerException Any assistance/pointers would be appreciated... Sample output included below. Philip $ java Test java.lang.NullPointerException Mar 23, 2004 1:43:53 PM org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1 run SEVERE: Unable to locate a valid EngineConfigurationFactory Mar 23, 2004 1:43:53 PM org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1 run SEVERE: Unable to locate a valid EngineConfigurationFactory Mar 23, 2004 1:43:53 PM org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1 run SEVERE: Unable to locate a valid EngineConfigurationFactory Mar 23, 2004 1:43:53 PM org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1 run SEVERE: Unable to locate a valid EngineConfigurationFactory java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException You typed : Thread-1 You typed : Thread-2 You typed : Thread-3 You typed : Thread-10 You typed : Thread-11 You typed : Thread-4
