Application Server 8.2 + Axis Web Service Client +Win Server 2003 Issue

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm facing a weird problem the last couples of days and I'm getting bored of banging my head against the logs/screen, so please if you could help I'd really appreciate it.
I'm working on a Sun Application Server 8.2 project that includes an axis web service client. I am using Netbeans 5 to do the writing plus I am on a Win XP platform.
The developers of the web service I intend to absorb were kind enough to package the client into a jar so all I have to do is to import the client and the axis related jar files (axis, axis-ant etc.) in my project and my classpath.
Everything is working perfect on my pc but when I deploy the project on my actual server the web service client is running forever, leaving my end users with a blank browser window that is also loading forever.
The server OS is Win Server 2003 and is directly connected to a gateway - no proxies. Also my development pc and my server are running the same jre and have the exact server police settings; but Sun's Application Server is running on port 8080 on my pc whereas on my server it's running on port 80.
Here's my server's log:
[#|2008-04-14T21:50:01.795+0300|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe8.2|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=14;|StandardWrapperValve[obos]: Servlet.service() for servlet obos threw exception
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HTTP
faultSubcode:
faultString: (0)null
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
     {}:return code: 0
     {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HttpErrorCode:0
(0)null
     at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:744)
     at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)
     at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
     at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
     at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
     at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
     at uk.ac.ebi.ook.web.services.OntologyQuerySoapBindingStub.getOntologyNames(OntologyQuerySoapBindingStub.java:509)
     at org.dude.ols.client.obos.processRequest(obos.java:30)
     at org.dude.ols.client.obos.doGet(obos.java:64)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:747)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
     at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor99.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
     at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
     at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
     at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:257)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:55)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:161)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:263)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:225)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:173)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:132)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:933)
     at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:189)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:604)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:475)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.executeProcessorTask(ReadTask.java:371)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.doTask(ReadTask.java:264)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:281)
     at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:83)
|#]
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi Paz,
Thanks for taking the time :)
To answer your questions:
1. Has this WebServices ever worked or is this the first time?
The web service is working perfectly fine on my working station, the problem appears only when I deploy it on my actual server, which means that the web service is working.
2. What Apache Axis Version are you using?
1.4
3. What JRE version are you using?
Both my development pc and my server run jre 1.5.0_14
4. In the actual server environment, can you confirm all information are exactly same as DEV environment...
Oh yes! Absolutely.
My recent assumption is that some windows service might be needed to run the web service client and obviously I have no clue which one it might be.
Just to make sure; is the security policy of my Application Server set correctly?
     permission java.lang.RuntimePermission     "getClassLoader";
     permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "createClassLoader";
     permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "loadLibrary.*";
     permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "queuePrintJob";
     permission java.net.SocketPermission "*", "connect,accept,resolve";
     permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>", "read,write,delete";
// work-around for pointbase bug 4864405
permission java.io.FilePermission "${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}${/}lib${/}databases${/}-", "delete";
permission java.io.FilePermission "${java.io.tmpdir}${/}-", "delete";
     permission java.util.PropertyPermission "*", "read,write";
     permission java.lang.RuntimePermission     "modifyThreadGroup";
Again thanks for taking the time :)