SOAP service could not be loaded: premature end of file

Question

Hi,
I am trying to call some web services using the Web Service action in the logic editor, but I am always getting some errors. For instance, for an online service (e.g. http://webservices.imacination.com/distance/Distance.jws) I am getting:
"SOAP service could not be loaded: Premature end of file."
I've tried 3 different web services that are available out there, and no result. I've laso tried writing it like this:
http://webservices.imacination.com/distance/Distance.jws/ or
http://webservices.imacination.com/distance/Distance.jws?wsdl
, but the result was the same.
I've also tried a web service that's currently deployed on my machine, using Tomcat. Here, I'm getting some slightly different errors:
http://localhost:8080/epcis-repository-0.2.0/capture/
SOAP service could not be loaded: the element type "HR" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</hr>"
http://localhost:8080/epcis-repository-0.2.0/capture or
http://localhost:8080/epcis-repository-0.2.0/capture?wsdl
SOAP service could not be loaded: WSDLEXception (at /html): faultCode=INVALID_WSDL: Expected element 'definitions'.
As a note, this web service that I have deployed locally is also available online (http://demo.accada.org/epcis/capture), and if I try out this one, the error is again:
SOAP service could not be loaded: Premature end of file.
As far as I could tell, the /epcis/capture webservice is document/literal, so I don't think this should be a problem. I have read other posts about people having similar problems, but I could not find the answer to my problem...
Can anyone please help?
Thanks in advance!
Angela

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks a lot, everyone, for your answers! Yes, the firewall and the "rpc/encoded" encoding might explain why the first two web services did not work...
However, it does not explain why the web service installed locally does not work, since it is "document/literal" encoded, as far as I could tell..... And unfortunately, this one is the one that I need to connect to (the others I was only using for testing). Again, this is the error message that I get:
SOAP service could not be loaded: WSDLEXception (at /html): faultCode=INVALID_WSDL: Expected element definitions'.
Parts of the wsdl file are copied bellow, and I can't see anything wrong with it (certainly no <definitions/> missing):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- EPCIS QUERY SERVICE DEFINITIONS -->
<wsdl:definitions xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:epcis="urn:epcglobal:epcis:xsd:1" xmlns:epcisq="urn:epcglobal:epcis-query:xsd:1" xmlns:epcglobal="urn:epcglobal:xsd:1" xmlns:impl="urn:epcglobal:epcis:wsdl:1" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="urn:epcglobal:epcis:wsdl:1">
  <wsdl:binding name="EPCISServiceBinding" type="impl:EPCISServicePortType">
    <wsdlsoap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <wsdl:operation name="getQueryNames">
      <wsdlsoap:operation/>
      <wsdl:input>
        <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output>
        <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>
</wsdl:definitions>
As a side note, I now get the same error message if I try to connect from outside the company's firewall to the same web service available on the internet (http://demo.accada.org/epcis/capture?wsdl).
Does anyone have any more ideas?
Thank you once again in advance!
Angela