Deploying a web service to tomcat

Question

Hello
I've had a problem deploying a web app that includes a web service. The application runs with no problems on the development computer using netbean6's built in tomcat 6 but when I drop the war file on to the test server the following catalina error occurs
INFO: Deploying web application archive Temdox.war
+[GC 20492K->3737K(63424K), 0.0010350 secs]+
+[GC 20761K->4377K(63424K), 0.0012390 secs]+
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext addApplicationListener+
INFO: The listener "com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener" is already configured for this context. The duplicate definition has been ignored.
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextInitialized+
INFO: WSSERVLET12: JAX-WS context listener initializing
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextInitialized+
SEVERE: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
+     at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.DeploymentDescriptorParser.parse(DeploymentDescriptorParser.java:144)+
+     at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WSServletContextListener.java:108)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4350)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:123)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:145)+
+     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:769)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:829)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:718)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1215)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:293)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1337)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)+
+     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)+
+     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)+
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission com.sun.xml.ws.api.streaming.XMLStreamReaderFactory.woodstox read)
+     at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:323)+
+     at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:546)+
+     at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)+
+     at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1285)+
+     at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:652)+
+     at java.lang.Boolean.getBoolean(Boolean.java:221)+
+     at com.sun.xml.ws.api.streaming.XMLStreamReaderFactory.<clinit>(XMLStreamReaderFactory.java:78)+
+     ... 21 more+
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start+
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start+
+SEVERE: Context [Temdox] startup failed due to previous errors+
+01-Jul-2008 11:11:04 com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextDestroyed+
INFO: WSSERVLET13: JAX-WS context listener destroyed
+[GC 21401K->4600K(63424K), 0.0018230 secs]+
+01-Jul-2008 13:41:46 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources+
+INFO: Undeploying context [Temdox]+
+01-Jul-2008 13:41:46 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR+
The web service is using jax-ws and is an soap rpc service. I have noticed that the log refers to XMLStreamReaderFactory.woodstox
which should be XMLStreamReaderFactory.Woodstox (upper case W), but i dont know if this is significant, and if it is I dont know where i can change this.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Jon Doveston

Answer 1

The access denied message was caused by restrictive security settings in the tomcat configuration. In this case the test server being used is a managed server provided by a third party so at our request they allowed the actions and now the web app deploys successfully.