Our application (wss4j 1.5.6, cxf 2.2, tomcat 6.0) is getting an intermittent NullPointer Exception on Signature Creation (see stack trace below). This occurs in a non-deterministic fashion thus making reproduction near impossible (to date). I had hope when I saw the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/WsFx/wss4jFAQ#npe) but - as is recommended on the page - i printed out our XML parser and it is org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl. When this occurs it is always in the same part of our application - 6 parallel SOAP requests are sent (to a separate server) and 1 or 2 end up failing (intermittently) in the WSS4JOutInterceptor used by CXF.
Has anyone seen this before and have a solution? Should this be a JIRA item? Thanks a bunch for any help! org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapFault: Security processing failed. at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JOutInterceptor$WSS4JOutInterceptorInternal.handleMessage(WSS4JOutInterceptor.java:236) at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JOutInterceptor$WSS4JOutInterceptorInternal.handleMessage(WSS4JOutInterceptor.java:107) at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:236) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:469) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:299) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:251) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:73) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:124) at $Proxy60.findInstitutionalMetaData(Unknown Source) at edu.cmu.s3.ui.billing.internal.server.service.aging.report.AgingReportServiceImpl.getFilterData(AgingReportServiceImpl.java:107) at edu.cmu.s3.ui.billing.internal.server.service.aging.report.AgingReportServiceImpl.getAllColleges(AgingReportServiceImpl.java:50) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor95.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:527) at edu.cmu.s3.ui.billing.common.server.dispatcher.GwtRpcDispatcher.processCall(GwtRpcDispatcher.java:66) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.doPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:86) at edu.cmu.s3.ui.billing.common.server.dispatcher.GwtRpcDispatcher.handleRequest(GwtRpcDispatcher.java:47) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:875) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:807) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at edu.cmu.s3.ui.billing.common.server.servlet.ServiceContextLoginFilter.doFilter(ServiceContextLoginFilter.java:72) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:236) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:167) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:769) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:698) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:891) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityException: Error during Signature: ; nested exception is: org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityException: Signature creation failed; nested exception is: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.ws.security.action.SignatureAction.execute(SignatureAction.java:57) at org.apache.ws.security.handler.WSHandler.doSenderAction(WSHandler.java:201) at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JOutInterceptor.access$200(WSS4JOutInterceptor.java:47) at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JOutInterceptor$WSS4JOutInterceptorInternal.handleMessage(WSS4JOutInterceptor.java:221) ... 44 more Caused by: org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityException: Signature creation failed; nested exception is: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.ws.security.message.WSSecSignature.computeSignature(WSSecSignature.java:715) at org.apache.ws.security.message.WSSecSignature.build(WSSecSignature.java:772) at org.apache.ws.security.action.SignatureAction.execute(SignatureAction.java:54) ... 47 more -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NPE-on-Signature-Creation---Not-what-is-on-WIKI-tp25977337p25977337.html Sent from the WSS4J mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: wss4j-dev-unsubscr...@ws.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: wss4j-dev-h...@ws.apache.org