JBoss and Handler problem !

Question

Hi,
I am deploying a simple service on JBoss4.0.3SP1. Service itself (wothout handlers) work excellent. However, when I add simple handler:
package handlers;
public class LogHandler extends GenericHandler{
  HandlerInfo hi;
  public void init(HandlerInfo info){
    this.hi=info;
  public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext mc){
    logMessage(mc,System.out);
    return true;
  public boolean handleResponse(MessageContext mc){
    logMessage(mc,System.out);
    return true;
  public void logMessage(MessageContext mc, OutputStream out){
    SOAPMessageContext smc=(SOAPMessageContext)mc;
    SOAPMessage sm=smc.getMessage();
    try{
      sm.writeTo(out);
      out.write(System.getProperty("line.separator").getBytes());
    }catch(IOException e){
      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
    }catch(SOAPException e){
      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
  public QName[] getHeaders() {
    return hi.getHeaders();
}in my webservice.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<webservices xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://www.ibm.com/webservices/xsd/j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd" version="1.1">
     <webservice-description>
       <webservice-description-name>Math</webservice-description-name>
       <wsdl-file>WEB-INF/wsdl/Math.wsdl</wsdl-file>
       <jaxrpc-mapping-file>WEB-INF/mapping.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file>
       <port-component>
         <port-component-name>MathService</port-component-name>
         <wsdl-port>MathServicePort</wsdl-port>
         <service-endpoint-interface>service.MathService</service-endpoint-interface>
         <service-impl-bean>
           <servlet-link>MathServletService</servlet-link>
         </service-impl-bean>
         <handler>
           <handler-name>handlers.LogHandler</handler-name>
           <handler-class>handlers.LogHandler</handler-class>
         </handler>
       </port-component> 
     </webservice-description>
</webservices>I get this error.
06:32:13,234 INFO  [AxisServlet] org.jboss.axis.ConfigurationException: org.jbos
s.webservice.server.ServiceException: Cannot initialize webservice; nested excep
tion is:
        javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot initialize handler chain
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.generalException
faultSubcode:
faultString: Cannot initialize webservice; nested exception is:
        javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot initialize handler chain
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:Any idea how I can sort it out ?
Many thanks for you help
Michal

Answer 1

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