How to debug with Tomcat and soap

[Yong Miao <yo...@aspentech.com>]

Hi All,

I have a service running with Tomcat 4.0 and soap 2.3.

I am testing the service by using rpc client.
First time calling always fails and I got a message in tocam log like this:

2002-07-29 03:09:30 StandardWrapperValve[aebrsrouter]: Servlet.service() for
servlet aebrsrouter threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error building response envelope:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at
org.apache.soap.server.http.RPCRouterServlet.doPost(RPCRouterServlet.java:41
8)
	at Servlet.AeBRSRouterServlet.doPost(AeBRSRouterServlet.java:118)
	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(Application
FilterChain.java:247)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:193)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja
va:243)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
66)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja
va:190)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
66)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:2
46)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
64)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java: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.java:180
)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
66)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.
java:170)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
64)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170
)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
64)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
64)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java
:174)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5
66)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:
1012)
	at
org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107
)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

1) If you run the clent again, everying works fine. Anybody any ideas on
this?

2) I am using Forte for Java. How to debug my service with Tomcat and soap
with this tool?


Thank you very much for help in advance,
Yong