SOAP 'Connection refused' in java

Question

I am using the code attached to Log onto the SOAP Actuate reporting server using HttpURLConnection in Java. I get "java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused" while calling connection.getInputStream(); PLease note I do not get error while openConnection() but get it while getting the InputStream.
URL u = new URL("http://devserver:8000//soap/servlet/acweb");
               System.out.println("Opening connection...");
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
               System.out.println("Opening connection Done...");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) uc;
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset-'utf-8'");
connection.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", "");
Writer wout = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
System.out.println("connection.getOutputStream...");
wout.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n");
wout.write("<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"");
wout.write("xmlns:SOAP-ENV=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"");
wout.write("xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">");
wout.write("<SOAP-ENV:Body>");
wout.write("<SOAP-ACTU:Login xmlns:SOAP-ACTU=\"http://schemas.actuate.com/actuate6\">");
wout.write("<User>testuser</User>");
wout.write("<Password>tsetpwd</Password>");
wout.write("<Domain>HQ</Domain>");
wout.write("<UserSettings>true</UserSettings>");
wout.write("</SOAP-ACTU:Login>");
wout.write(" </SOAP-ENV:Body>");
wout.write("</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>");
wout.flush();
wout.close();
System.out.println("Wout.close...");
InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
System.out.println("connection.ger Input Stream...");
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1) System.out.print(c);
in.close();
System.out.println("Input Stream closed...");
catch (IOException e)
System.out.println("IO EXception : "+e);
catch (Exception ee)
System.out.println("EXception : "+ee);

Answer 1

"Connection refused" generally means there is no server listening at the port you tried to connect to.