Good morning! I'm attempting to debug a service I'm deploying. As part of that effort, I've turned on DEBUG (yeah, I know - LOTS of output) within the Log4j properties file.
I'm wading thru the output looking for a clue to my current problem when I saw: 2980 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.i18n.ProjectResourceBundle - org.apache.axis.i18n.resource::handleGetObject(exception00) 3088 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseSerializerFactory - Exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor.CastorSerializerFactory.create(java.lang.Class, javax.xml.namespace.QName) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:986) at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseSerializerFactory.createFactory(BaseSerializerFactory.java:253) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.java:529) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:245) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:225) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.java:208) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.setDocument(WSDDDocument.java:139) at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:65) at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine(FileProvider.java:176) at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init(AxisEngine.java:162) at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>(AxisEngine.java:146) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>(AxisServer.java:87) at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:109) at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:73) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:72) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:183) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getOption(AxisServletBase.java:370) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.init(AxisServletBase.java:110) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211) 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.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:239) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:500) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:268) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:110) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1024) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:862) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4357) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:121) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:143) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:805) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:903) 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.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:216) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement(CatalinaDigester.java:76) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:483) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556) 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.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) First thing this did was "remind" me that I need to insure I have rebuilt my axis.jar file with Castor support. I've verified this - the jar file contains the requisite module. Not being totally satisfied, I turned on -verbose:class within my Tomcat startup. I'm seeing: [Loaded org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor.CastorSerializerFactory] in the log file from Tomcat. So... The question becomes, is it possible to tell Axis to not produce a fault at deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.java:529) during startup? It almost seems a "waste" to fault there as the container "should" load the desired module for us. Or am I missing something? I'm getting the above fault for each reference to the Serializer and Deserializer in my deployment descriptor (18 references each). Any thoughts MUCH appreciated! Bob