InvocationTargetException in an axis WS

[David Brossard]

Hi,

I've got an application which runs fine on its own. I wrap it in an Axis 1 webservice and when I call it, Tomcat suddenly returns java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.

The runtime exception is raised at the following line:

boolean matched = incomingDocEpr.isEqualNode(instanceDocEpr);

incomindDocEpr and instanceDocEpr are two XML documents (of type Document) and I can print them out easily (I know they're not null). And yet although the comparison works fine (and returns true) in the application, once the latter is exposed as a WS in Tomcat, the method throws the java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.

Does anyone know why?

[David Brossard]

The solution is to get the latest xerces implementation and drop it in Tomcat's common/endorsed folder.