Hi All,
I am using jboss 3.2.6 and I have deployed a WS through a .wsr file which contains the web-service.xml in the meta-inf directory. I also have the class which i want to expose as the WS in the appropriate package in the same jar. I checked the service through the axis servlet and i could get the wsdl file. I also generated stub code using the same.

Now when i try to access the webservice using a client i got a NULL POINTER exception. I did search on the forum and it seems there was a bug. So I also replaced the patched jboss-net.jar and tried again but got the following error

10:28:31,756 ERROR [Engine] StandardWrapperValve[JBossAxisServlet]: Servlet.serv
ice() for servlet JBossAxisServlet threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.axis.message.BodyBuilder.onStartChild(BodyBuilder.java:209
)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(Dese
rializationContextImpl.java:1188)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Sour
ce)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unkn
own Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
Dispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Un
known Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(Deserializa
tionContextImpl.java:257)
at org.apache.axis.MessagePart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(MessagePart.java:655)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:432)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getContentType(Message.java:498)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:10
27)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBas
e.java:372)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:157)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFi
lter.java:75)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:186)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:157)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV
alve.java:214)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(Standard
ContextValve.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV
alve.java:152)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:104)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrinc
ipalValve.java:66)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:102)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(Securit
yAssociationValve.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authentica
torBase.java:540)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:137)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValv
eContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)

at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:16
0)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java
:799)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.proce
ssConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java
:577)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
ool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)


Any ideas ?

Thanks
Peter.