I am using orion and the problem here turned out to be that you should not put soap.jar into orion/lib, but rather into web-inf/lib, as if you have a soap.jar in orion/lib, you cannot talk to your beans :(
it is not clear to my why, but it is all working smoothly now. cheers timj > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Joyce > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:26 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: soap on ejb > > > Hi, > > I am trying to call an EJB using the test client included > with the distribution: > > D:\Program > Files\orion\applications\ITEval2\soap-web\WEB-INF\classes>samples\ejb > \testit.cmd > This test assumes a server URL of > http://localhost/iteval2/soap/servlet/rpcroute > r > Deploying the testprovider service... > . > Verify that it's there > Deployed Services: > urn:ejbhello > . > Running the testprovider client > Ouch, the call failed: > Fault Code = SOAP-ENV:Server.Exception: > Fault String = domain was null > . > Undeploy it now > . > Verify that it's gone > Deployed Services: > > > does anyone know what "domain was null" means? or where i > can find some documentation re soap exceptions > > tia > > timj >