I am migrating our well working webservice based on AXIS2-1.2 / JDK 1.5.0_18 to AXIS2-1.6.1 JDK 1.5.0_18 on OpenVMS
Our webservice was rebuilt against Axis2-1.6.1 and deployes correct, and works to some degree, but fails with certain statements. i.e. The following program segment raises an error now, with AXIS2-1.6.1 but was working the past years very well with AXIS2-1.2 element is of type OMElement from axiom element.build(); element.detach(); //extract SPS-Payload Part from Payload OMElement payIN = getLoginPayload(element); if (null == payIN) { return setErrorInElement("Authenticate",10003,"No PAYLOAD passed to SpezplaService",0,"","NO"); } String username = getFLDVAL(payIN, "USERNAME"); String serverpa = getFLDVAL(payIN, "SERVERPATH"); this.log.info(" USERNAME: "+username+" SERVERPATH: "+serverpa); [394] this.log.info("get encoding *******************"); [395] String enc = element.getXMLStreamReader().getCharacterEncodingScheme().toString(); [396] this.log.info("Encoding use: "+enc); The log shows [INFO] USERNAME: adminp SERVERPATH: [INFO] get encoding ******************* java.lang.NullPointerException at axawl.spezpla.servers.SpezplaService.SpServer.login(SpServer.java:395) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592) at org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogi c(RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver.java:97) at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutSyncMessageReceiver.invokeBusine ssLogic(AbstractInOutSyncMessageReceiver.java:42) at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessa geReceiver.java:110) at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:181) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostReques t(HTTPTransportUtils.java:172) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:146) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica tionFilterChain.java:269) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv e.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java :127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve. java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:1 74) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:87 4) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.proc essConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint .java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollow erWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool .java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) [ERROR] Unknown Java exception took place within SpezplaService. Any clue what is wrong, can help AND sorry to ask here but - HP - deliverd a JVM with no JPDA debugger port for OpenVMS JDK 1.5. or JDK 1.6 on Itanium OpenVMS. I am currently moving my code to Windows Vista and rebuild it and test it there and maybe it fails only on OpenVMS. ! Josef