I'm new to soap and trying to set up some message services. I've had no problems with rpc type services, but with message services I'm getting a "no signature match" error. I checked my classpath and everything seems to be in place (my soap rpc examples work no problem), and I made sure that the root element in the soap envelope (purchaseOrder in my case) has a matching method name in my Java class. Here's the reply I get back from my server implementation. Thanks in advance. Mark.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV ="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xm lns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd ="http://www.w3.org /1999/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <SOAP-ENV:Fault> <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode> <faultstring>Exception while handling service request: OrderProcessor.purchaseOr der(org.apache.soap.Envelope,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext,org.apache.soap.rpc .SOAPContext) -- no signature match</faultstring> <faultactor>/soap/servlet/messagerouter</faultactor> <detail> <stackTrace>java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: OrderProcessor.purchaseOrder(org.ap ache.soap.Envelope,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPConte xt) -- no signature match at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getEntryPoint(MethodUtils.java:194) at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getMethod(MethodUtils.java:548) at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getMethod(MethodUtils.java:528) at org.apache.soap.server.MessageRouter.invoke(MessageRouter.java:54) at org.apache.soap.providers.MsgJavaProvider.invoke(MsgJavaProvider.java :125) at org.apache.soap.server.http.MessageRouterServlet.doPost(MessageRouter Servlet.java:268) 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(Appl icationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF ilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV alve.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav a:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV alve.java:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav a:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java: 2343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j ava:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:566) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatche rValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j ava:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java: 468) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav a:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal ve.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline .java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav a:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcesso r.java:1012) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.ja va:1107) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) </stackTrace> </detail> </SOAP-ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
