Classpath and property problem in services

Question

Hi, all,
I've had a number of problems getting the Stockquote example to run properly. This seems to be due to a problem that services don't get either classpaths or properties when they start.
The first manifestation of this problem came when the proxySet, proxyHost, and proxyPort environment variables weren't getting set properly in class services.stockquote.Stockquote. The symptom was that url.openStream () timed out because the proxy was not set correctly.
The second symptom comes when"JavaPort" is used as the port on the client. Despite every attempt I've made to put services.stockquote.Stockquote on the classpath, URLClassLoader will not find this class. However, a call to Class.forName("services.stockquote.Stockquote") in Main.java, just before the bottom of the stack, works! It works in both the client and the server!
So, could someone please tell me why the classpath and properties are getting shucked, and how to get them right?
I'm on Windows 2000 :p using JDK 1.3.1 and Tomcat 4.0.
Thanks,
- Steve.

Answer 1

Vivek, I think this belongs in a different thread. Also you'll need to say what problems you're having.
The only thing that definitely needs to be changed about the example is that the service may fail if it's run behind a proxy server. You'll need to set the following System properties:
System.setProperty("proxySet", "true");
System.setProperty("proxyHost", "your.proxy.com");
System.setProperty("proxyPort", <your proxy port>");
If this isn't done you'll get an exception like the following:
Exception in thread "main" com.ibm.wsif.WSIFException: SOAP Fault:SOAP-ENV:Server Exception from service object: Operation timed out: connect
-S.