Catalog SRM MDM

Hello
I am going to the shop trxn and calling the SRM MDM catalog.
When I try to do this it is giving me an error
Network Error (tcp_error)
A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.
For assistance, contact your network support team.
The MDM server is up and we are able to see data and edit it.
The call structure is maintained as per the config guide.
Any idea what could be the error
regards
J

Hi,
It looks the error in J2EE server. Please check your J2EE server and search UI and Java connect deployment?
Regards,
Masa

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Report Statistics
Size of document     33.979 Bytes
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Currencies        195
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250 CWD command successful.
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