Amogh Soman [http://community.jboss.org/people/asoman] created the discussion "Exception in publishing the webservice on JBoss 4.2.3_GA" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/605418#605418 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I am trying to publish a simple websrvice on JBos 4.2.3_GA deployed on unix box. But I am getting the following exception when trying to deploy the service: It seems the server data directory is not available. but I am not sure. Can someone help me on this? Thanks in advance. java.lang.NullPointerException         at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.WSDLFilePublisher.getPublishLocation(WSDLFilePublisher.java:326)         at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.WSDLFilePublisher.publishWsdlFiles(WSDLFilePublisher.java:105)         at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.PublishContractDeploymentAspect.create(PublishContractDeploymentAspect.java:52)         at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:118)         at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:97)         at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.DeployerInterceptor.start(DeployerInterceptor.java:90)         at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport$XMBeanInterceptor.start(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:188)         at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptor.invoke(SubDeployerInterceptor.java:95)         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 $Proxy55.start(Unknown Source)         at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1025)         at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:819)         at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor27.invoke(Unknown Source)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)         at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)         at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/605418#605418] Start a new discussion in JBoss Messaging at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]