null pointer exception

[tony vieitez]

Excellent - finally the penny drops!!!   My mistake, as you realised, was that I did not appreciate where soap related classes and jars should be placed. I had the soap.jar placed in the <tomcat-home>\lib\ directory, as were all the soap application jars. Now I understand that the soap.jar as well as soap application jars should be placed, under normal circumstances, in the <tomcat-home>\webapps\soap\WEB-INF\lib\ directory. Soap application classes should be placed in the <tomcat-home>\webapps\soap\WEB-INF\classes\ directory.   Thanks for your perseverance Scott – it really is very much appreciated   Tony