Cannot connect to p6ws using demo application

Question

Hi everyone,
I started a few days ago to take some interest in Primavera p6 as a was asked to connect to an existing Primavera P6 server. First of all I wanted to do a standalone installation and see what was this about...
Well, I was provided with some information about the current primavera P6 version that was being used, (Release 7) so I started to download the Primavera P6 project management.
So far so good, I installed it using SQL Server and (after a few tries) i succeeded in login into the program.
After some reading I decided to use Primavera P6 web services as the way to connect my system to the current Primavera P6 system. So I willingly downloaded the P6 Webservices module and Weblogic 10g R3 (recommended version in the administrator guide pdf).
After downloading both files I installed without much trouble Primavera P6 Web services and I linked it to the pmdb database in my system successfully (or at least it says so) and right after that I installed Weblogic 10g R3 in production mode in my system aswell. I created a new domain called test_primavera.
I managed to start Weblogic using "startWeblogic.cmd" script existing in weblogichome/user_projects/domains/bin folder.
The problems begin now...
I follow up all the steps described in the administrator guide and I try to launch the p6ws.war existing in the previously installed p6webservices_1 folder in my system.
The first problem I found is that Weblogic is not able to finde a class named CXFServlet as it jar is not located in the classpath. Well I've checked my %CXF_HOME% environment variable and it was ok (otherwise I would not be able to install P6 WebServices and I tried manually to add %CXF_HOME% folder to the classpath with no result. Checking the startWeblocig.cmd log I discover that Weblogic is always looking for classes in the already deployed war folder which in my case is "C:\weblogichome\user_projects\domains\test_primavera\servers\AdminServer\tmp\_WL_user\p6ws\nmdpik\war\WEB-INF\lib" and no matter what I did it always looked for those classes in that folder. In a desperate attempt I copied all the jars from the %CXF_HOME%/modules folder into that folder and found a new error, Outofmemoryerror PermGenSpace.
I managed to fix this error playing with the memory variables and I finally managed to launch the p6ws war in my system (yay!!).
I am now able to go open the browser (http://mycomputer:7001/p6ws) and I see what I think is the primavera p6 webservice activated. But I cannot use the p6wsdemo.jar to connect to the server it always says "Demo failed. Please check if the server is running and try again." I configured the authentication using Username token profile and I've tried the 3 users I know in the system (pubuser, privuser and admin).
I have tried also to create a small program to login in the system but with no result aswel, here is the code
private static boolean testLogin()
          URL wsdlURL = null;
          try {
               wsdlURL = new URL("http://mycomputer:7001/p6ws/services/AuthenticationService?wsdl");
          } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          AuthenticationService service = new AuthenticationService(wsdlURL);
          AuthenticationServicePortType servicePort = service.getAuthenticationServiceSOAP12PortHttp();
          BindingProvider bp = (BindingProvider)servicePort;
          boolean success = false;
          try {
               success = servicePort.login("admin", "admin", 1); // <- Line 119
          } catch (IntegrationFault e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          return success;
When I try to run this program I always get the following error:
Information: Creating Service {http://xmlns.oracle.com/Primavera/P6/V7/WS/Authentication}AuthenticationService from WSDL: http://mycomputer:7001/p6ws/services/AuthenticationService?wsdl
com.primavera.ws.p6.authentication.IntegrationFault: Fatal error: Could not initialize class com.primavera.integration.server.ServerFacade
     at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:128)
     at $Proxy41.login(Unknown Source)
     at p6webservice.testLogin(p6webservice.java:119)
     at p6webservice.main(p6webservice.java:71)
Now I am completely stuck.
I am working in a Windows 8 - 64 bit system using Primavera P6 Release 7 and Weblogic 10g R3. I have thought about installing everything in a Win xp 32 bit emulated system but I would like to avoid it. Any ideas?
Any help would be great
Thanks in advance!
Regards
PS: Sorry if my english causes you any trouble :)
Edited by: 991858 on 05-mar-2013 7:21

Answer 1

Try switching to HTTP Cookies for authentication. This is a simpler method and usually works well with .Net.
Also, you should be able to call the ReadDatabaseInstances without logging in to test if the web service is returning values.
var dbinstances = AuthService.ReadDatabaseInstances(new object());
I have a helper method that I use with HTTP Cookies for authentication.
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using Primavera.Ws.P6.Authentication;
namespace Fortum.ServiceHelpers.P6Api
public class P6AuthenticationService
private const String TransportUrl = "http://<hostname>:<p6WsPort number>/p6ws/services/AuthenticationService";
public AuthenticationService AuthService;
private readonly Login _login;
public CookieContainer CookieContainer { get; set; }
private string _server;
public String Server
get { return _server; }
set
_server = value;
AuthService.Url = UpdateP6HostUrl();
private int _port;
public Int32 Port
get { return _port; }
set
_port = value;
AuthService.Url = UpdateP6HostUrl();
public Boolean IsLoggedOn { get; set; }
private string _username;
public String Username
get { return _username; }
set
_username = value;
login.UserName = username;
private string _password;
public String Password
get { return _password; }
set
_password = value;
login.Password = password;
private int _databaseInstanceId;
public Int32 DatabaseInstanceId
get { return _databaseInstanceId; }
set
_databaseInstanceId = value;
login.DatabaseInstanceId = databaseInstanceId;
_login.DatabaseInstanceIdSpecified = true;
public P6AuthenticationService()
_login = new Login();
AuthService = new AuthenticationService();
IsLoggedOn = false;
public P6AuthenticationService(String p6WsServer, Int32 p6WsPort)
: this()
Server = p6WsServer;
Port = p6WsPort;
AuthService.Url = UpdateP6HostUrl();
AuthService.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
public String UpdateP6HostUrl()
return TransportUrl.Replace("<hostname>", Server).Replace("<p6WsPort number>", Port.ToString());
public Boolean DatabaseExists(String databaseName)
var retVal = false;
if (databaseName == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("databaseName");
if (GetDatabaseInstance(databaseName) != null) retVal = true;
return retVal;
public Boolean DatabaseExists(int databaseId)
var retVal = false;
if (databaseId < 1) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("databaseId");
if (GetDatabaseInstance(databaseId) != null) retVal = true;
return retVal;
public Int32? GetDatabaseInstanceID(String databaseName)
if (databaseName == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("databaseName");
var databaseInstances = ReadDatabaseInstances().ToList();
var instance = databaseInstances.FirstOrDefault(x => x.DatabaseName.IsEqualTo(databaseName, true));
if (instance != null) return instance.DatabaseInstanceId;
return null;
public ReadDatabaseInstancesResponseDatabaseInstance GetDatabaseInstance(String databaseName)
if (databaseName == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("databaseName");
var databaseInstances = ReadDatabaseInstances().ToList();
return databaseInstances.FirstOrDefault(instance => instance.DatabaseName.IsEqualTo(databaseName, true));
public ReadDatabaseInstancesResponseDatabaseInstance GetDatabaseInstance(int databaseId)
if (databaseId < 1) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("databaseId");
var databaseInstances = ReadDatabaseInstances().ToList();
return databaseInstances.FirstOrDefault(instance => databaseId == instance.DatabaseInstanceId);
public ReadDatabaseInstancesResponseDatabaseInstance[] ReadDatabaseInstances()
var dbinstances = AuthService.ReadDatabaseInstances(new object());
return dbinstances;
public Boolean Login(string username, string password)
_login.UserName = username;
_login.Password = password;
if (AuthService == null) return false;
AuthService.Login(_login);
CookieContainer = AuthService.CookieContainer;
IsLoggedOn = true;
return true;
public void Logout()
AuthService.Logout(new object());
IsLoggedOn = false;
Gene