Hello
im working on a webservice's application client with jboss-4rc
the client's jar contain the full WSDL and original mapping file,the deployment of the app-client was clean
but at runtime - after the initialcontext
an exception is thrown here :

javax.xml.rpc.Service service = (javax.xml.rpc.Service)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/service/HOServiceJSE");

the exception's stack:

  [java] got InitialContext
 [java] log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jboss.xml.binding.Unmarshaller).
 [java] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
 [java] naming: Could not dereference object
 [java] cause: Cannot unmarshal jaxrpc-mapping-file: META-INF/jaxrpc-mapping.xml

 [java] javax.naming.NamingException: Could not dereference object [Root exception is javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Can
-mapping-file: META-INF/jaxrpc-mapping.xml]
 [java] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:632)
 [java] at org.jboss.naming.client.java.javaURLContextFactory$EncContextProxy.invoke(javaURLContextFactory.java:118)
 [java] at $Proxy0.lookup(Unknown Source)
 [java] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
 [java] at ws.test.client1.main(client1.java:14)
 [java] Caused by: javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot unmarshal jaxrpc-mapping-file: META-INF/jaxrpc-mapping.xml
 [java] at org.jboss.metadata.ServiceRefMetaData.getJavaWsdlMapping(ServiceRefMetaData.java:113)
 [java] at org.jboss.webservice.client.ServiceObjectFactory.getObjectInstance(ServiceObjectFactory.java:126)
 [java] at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:301)
 [java] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:621)
 [java] ... 4 more
 [java] Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Element type "java-wsdl-mapping" is not declared. @ *unknown*[3,-1]
 [java] at org.jboss.xml.binding.Unmarshaller$MetaDataErrorHandler.error(Unmarshaller.java:170)
 [java] at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.error(Parser2.java:3359)
 [java] at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1502)
 [java] at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:667)
 [java] at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:337)
 [java] at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:448)
 [java] at org.jboss.xml.binding.Unmarshaller.unmarshal(Unmarshaller.java:153)
 [java] at org.jboss.xml.binding.Unmarshaller.unmarshal(Unmarshaller.java:140)
 [java] at org.jboss.webservice.metadata.jaxrpcmapping.JavaWsdlMappingFactory.parse(JavaWsdlMappingFactory.java:57)
 [java] at org.jboss.metadata.ServiceRefMetaData.getJavaWsdlMapping(ServiceRefMetaData.java:109)
 [java] ... 7 more

i checked the jndi name in jboss's jndi tree and it looks fine , the app-client descriptors seem fine too

im really stuck here for some time now ,
so if anybody has an idea......

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<java-wsdl-mapping xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
  xmlns:impl="http://ws.test1/ws4ee"
  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_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd"
  version="1.1">

  <package-mapping>
    <package-type>ws.test1</package-type>
    <namespaceURI>http://ws.test1/ws4ee</namespaceURI>
  </package-mapping>

  <java-xml-type-mapping>
    <java-type>java.lang.String</java-type>
    <root-type-qname>impl:in0</root-type-qname>
    <qname-scope>element</qname-scope>
  </java-xml-type-mapping>
  <java-xml-type-mapping>
    <java-type>java.lang.String</java-type>
    <root-type-qname>impl:getInfoReturn</root-type-qname>
    <qname-scope>element</qname-scope>
  </java-xml-type-mapping>

</java-wsdl-mapping>

Hi Alon,

If you are still seeing this site, could you please let me know if you could go past the problem that you have stated in this thread (javax.naming.NamingException: Could not dereference object [Root exception is javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot unmarshal jaxrpc-mapping-file)...Cuz, Now I am stuck on it for a long time....and the only search that google gives me on this problem is your name...

PLEASE HELP ME OUTTA THIS.

Thanks
Amit. (amitm at interrait dot com)

Hi, I have same error: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.webservice.client.ServiceImpl - in simple java app it works fine, but whet I'm trying to get Servise in AppServer: javax.xml.rpc.Service service = ServiceFactory.newInstance().createService(new QName(sServiceName)); i have different result.