hi, here is the excerpt from the server.log file when deploying a simple pojo based webservice packaged in the war | 2006-09-26 00:27:01,828 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Undeploying file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:03,312 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE] stop: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:04,421 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] stopping service: jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:05,906 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE] destroy: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:05,984 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] destroying service: jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:06,250 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] destroying dependent services for: jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war dependent services are: [] | 2006-09-26 00:27:06,562 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Destroying jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:06,687 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Destroyed jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:07,640 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] removing service: jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:08,312 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] removing already unregistered jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war from server | 2006-09-26 00:27:09,015 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader] Unregistering cl=org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1b5eba4{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35697celsius-exp.war/ ,addedOrder=39} | 2006-09-26 00:27:09,296 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedLoaderRepository3] UnifiedLoaderRepository removed(true) org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1b5eba4{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35697celsius-exp.war/ ,addedOrder=39} | 2006-09-26 00:27:09,875 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo] Cleaned Deployment: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35697celsius-exp.war/ | 2006-09-26 00:27:09,953 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Undeployed file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:10,140 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:10,140 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Starting deployment (init step) of package at: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:10,156 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Copying file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war -> C:\jboss-4.0.4.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp35698celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:10,484 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] using deployer MBeanProxyExt[jboss.web:service=WebServer] | 2006-09-26 00:27:10,484 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] Begin init | 2006-09-26 00:27:11,328 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] Unpacking war to: C:\jboss-4.0.4.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp35698celsius-exp.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:12,156 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] Replaced war with unpacked contents | 2006-09-26 00:27:12,156 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] Was unable to delete war file | 2006-09-26 00:27:12,234 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] webContext: null | 2006-09-26 00:27:12,234 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] warURL: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/ | 2006-09-26 00:27:15,843 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] End init | 2006-09-26 00:27:15,875 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo] createLoaderRepository from config: LoaderRepositoryConfig(repositoryName: JMImplementation:name=Default,service=LoaderRepository, repositoryClassName: null, configParserClassName: null, repositoryConfig: null) | 2006-09-26 00:27:15,937 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader] setRepository, repository=org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedLoaderRepository3@c4aad3, cl=org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1d590d{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/ ,addedOrder=0} | 2006-09-26 00:27:15,937 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader] setRepository, repository=org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedLoaderRepository3@c4aad3, cl=org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1d590d{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/ ,addedOrder=0} | 2006-09-26 00:27:15,937 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedLoaderRepository3] Adding org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1d590d{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/ ,addedOrder=0} | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,000 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] found 0 subpackages of file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,078 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Watching new file: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,109 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] create step for deployment file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,109 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE] create: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,109 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.Tomcat5] create, celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,906 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] Creating service jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:16,921 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] adding depends in ServiceController.register: [] | 2006-09-26 00:27:17,046 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Creating jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:17,046 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Created jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war | 2006-09-26 00:27:17,046 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] Creating dependent components for: jboss.web.deployment:id=1363851585,war=celsius.war dependents are: [] | 2006-09-26 00:27:17,250 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.JSR109ServerMetaDataBuilder] START buildMetaData: [url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/WEB-INF/webservices.xml] | 2006-09-26 00:27:19,437 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory] parse: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp35698celsius-exp.war/WEB-INF/wsdl/CelsiusService.wsdl | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,359 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLInterface] new WSDLInterface | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,359 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLInterface] setName: Celsius | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,359 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLInterface] setQName: {http://converters/}Celsius | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,359 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLBinding] new WSDLBinding | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,359 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLBinding] setQName: {http://converters/}CelsiusBinding | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,375 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLBinding] setName: CelsiusBinding | 2006-09-26 00:27:21,375 DEBUG [org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLBinding] setInterfaceName: CelsiusBinding | 2006-09-26 00:27:22,171 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Could not create deployment: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war | java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.ws.metadata.JSR109ServerMetaDataBuilder.buildMetaData(JSR109ServerMetaDataBuilder.java:131) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE.createWebServicesMetaData(WebServiceDeployerJSE.java:189) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployer.create(WebServiceDeployer.java:103) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE.create(WebServiceDeployerJSE.java:66) | at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport$XMBeanInterceptor.create(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:180) | at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptor.invoke(SubDeployerInterceptor.java:91) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy31.create(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:953) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:807) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:771) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor57.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy8.deploy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:610) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225) | 2006-09-26 00:27:23,593 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Failed to deploy: org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner$DeployedURL@514ab941{ url=file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war, deployedLastModified=1159209702000 } | org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not create deployment: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy/celsius.war; - nested throwable: (java.lang.NullPointerException) | at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:53) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:975) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:807) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:771) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor57.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy8.deploy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:610) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225) | Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.ws.metadata.JSR109ServerMetaDataBuilder.buildMetaData(JSR109ServerMetaDataBuilder.java:131) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE.createWebServicesMetaData(WebServiceDeployerJSE.java:189) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployer.create(WebServiceDeployer.java:103) | at org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE.create(WebServiceDeployerJSE.java:66) | at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport$XMBeanInterceptor.create(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:180) | at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptor.invoke(SubDeployerInterceptor.java:91) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy31.create(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:953) | ... 20 more | | | wsdl file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | | <definitions name="CelsiusService" targetNamespace="http://converters/" xmlns:tns="http://converters/" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"> | <types/> | <message name="Celsius_toCelsius"> | <part name="float_1" type="xsd:float"/></message> | <message name="Celsius_toCelsiusResponse"> | <part name="result" type="xsd:float"/></message> | <portType name="Celsius"> | <operation name="toCelsius" parameterOrder="float_1"> | <input message="tns:Celsius_toCelsius"/> | <output message="tns:Celsius_toCelsiusResponse"/></operation></portType> | <binding name="CelsiusBinding" type="tns:Celsius"> | <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="rpc"/> | <operation name="toCelsius"> | <soap:operation soapAction=""/> | <input> | <soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://converters/"/></input> | <output> | <soap:body use="literal" namespace="http://converters/"/></output></operation></binding> | <service name="CelsiusService"> | <port name="CelsiusPort" binding="tns:CelsiusBinding"> | <soap:address location="http://localhost:8080/celsius/Celsius"/></port></service></definitions> | webservices.xml file | <webservices xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://www.ibm.com/webservices/xsd/j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd" version="1.1"> | <webservice-description > | <webservice-description-name>CelsiusService</webservice-description-name> | <wsdl-file>WEB-INF/wsdl/CelsiusService.wsdl</wsdl-file> | <jaxrpc-mapping-file>WEB-INF/mapping.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file> | <port-component > | <port-component-name>Celsius</port-component-name> | <wsdl-port > | <namespaceURI>http://converters/</namespaceURI> | <localpart>Celsius</localpart> | </wsdl-port> | <service-endpoint-interface>converters.Celsius</service-endpoint-interface> | <service-impl-bean > | <servlet-link>CelsiusServlet</servlet-link> | </service-impl-bean> | </port-component> | </webservice-description> | </webservices> | mapping file | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <java-wsdl-mapping xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://www.ibm.com/webservices/xsd/j2ee_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd"> | <package-mapping> | <package-type>converters</package-type> | <namespaceURI>http://converters/types</namespaceURI> | </package-mapping> | <package-mapping> | <package-type>converters</package-type> | <namespaceURI>http://converters/</namespaceURI> | </package-mapping> | <service-interface-mapping> | <service-interface>converters.CelsiusService</service-interface> | <wsdl-service-name xmlns:serviceNS="http://converters/">serviceNS:CelsiusService</wsdl-service-name> | <port-mapping> | <port-name>CelsiusPort</port-name> | <java-port-name>CelsiusPort</java-port-name> | </port-mapping> | </service-interface-mapping> | <service-endpoint-interface-mapping> | <service-endpoint-interface>converters.Celsius</service-endpoint-interface> | <wsdl-port-type xmlns:portTypeNS="http://converters/">portTypeNS:Celsius</wsdl-port-type> | <wsdl-binding xmlns:bindingNS="http://converters/">bindingNS:CelsiusBinding</wsdl-binding> | <service-endpoint-method-mapping> | <java-method-name>toCelsius</java-method-name> | <wsdl-operation>toCelsius</wsdl-operation> | <method-param-parts-mapping> | <param-position>0</param-position> | <param-type>float</param-type> | <wsdl-message-mapping> | <wsdl-message xmlns:wsdlMsgNS="http://converters/">wsdlMsgNS:Celsius_toCelsius</wsdl-message> | <wsdl-message-part-name>float_1</wsdl-message-part-name> | <parameter-mode>IN</parameter-mode> | </wsdl-message-mapping> | </method-param-parts-mapping> | <wsdl-return-value-mapping> | <method-return-value>float</method-return-value> | <wsdl-message xmlns:wsdlMsgNS="http://converters/">wsdlMsgNS:Celsius_toCelsiusResponse</wsdl-message> | <wsdl-message-part-name>result</wsdl-message-part-name> | </wsdl-return-value-mapping> | </service-endpoint-method-mapping> | </service-endpoint-interface-mapping> | </java-wsdl-mapping> | | web.xml | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" | version="2.4"> | <servlet> | <servlet-name>CelsiusServlet</servlet-name> | <servlet-class>converters.CelsiusServlet</servlet-class> | <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> | </servlet> | | <servlet-mapping> | <servlet-name>CelsiusServlet</servlet-name> | <url-pattern>/Celsius</url-pattern> | </servlet-mapping> | | </web-app> | | Could'nt figured out why this null pointer is coming... please advice View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973992#... 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