I have been frustrated by the web services explorer.

For some reason on my environment, after I deploy my HelloWorld web service I have problems with the explorer. I can attache to my weblogic 8.1 server and it will retrieve the wsdl without problem. It seems to pare the WSDL fine and even shows my my service points. But when I click on one of them to execute it like in the example document. If I click on "example", I see the soap request being built properly, but when I click the "Go" button, I get an error message

IWAB0135E An unexpected error has occurred.
503
Service Unavailable

If I paste all of the generated soap into a firefox plugin called "poster" that allows me to build my post request and then submit it to the server all works fine, and I see my "hello world" results come back.

Why won't the "Invoke a WSDL Operation" work in the web services explorer?

Thank you.

Bob Coss

Bob,
Sorry for the delay in replying. Can you post the result from MyEclipse > About MyEclipse > Installation Summary so we can get the specifics of your setup?

Here is the Installation Summar results:

*** Date: Mon Jul 17 09:08:47 EDT 2006

*** System properties:
OS=WindowsXP
OS version=5.1
Java version=1.5.0_04

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

Version: 5.0 Milestone 2
Build id: 20060703-5.0-M2

*** Eclipse details:
Eclipse SDK

Version: 3.2.0
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

Version: 3.2.0.v20060626
Build id: 20060627-0816

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m-AgOexn6hlEUsvBO
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m-SVDNgVrNoh-MeGG
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m-F7snq1fxia-Z4XP
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m------6zXJJzJzJq
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m-GNq6oQq-7es-Y81
Build id: M20060629-1905

Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
-ws
win32
-arch
x86
-launcher
C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe
-name
Eclipse
-showsplash
600
-exitdata
e38_7c
-vm
C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_04\bin\javaw.exe

Thank you for investigating this.

Bob Coss

Bob,
I handed this off to one of our WS developers, he's looking into it.

I'm stopping by to see if there was any progress. I still cannot use the explorer.

I continued to play around with the web services explorer, and it occured to me that perhaps the problem is because my enviornment requires me to use a proxy server to get to the internet. You may recall that I had no problem retrieving the WSDL using the explorer, I nust couldn't test the service. After I disabled the proxy server support in myeclipse, the WebServices Explorer allowed me to test my request. Note that I had already excluded localhost from being proxied.

Please check the code and see if you can figure out what folks like me that have to use a proxy server can do so that we don't have to turn off the proxy server here.

Thanks,

Bob Coss

Bob,
I just checked in with the developer that I asked to look into this and he has been up for 30 hours straight, sorry for the delay.

Also thank you for the followup, I will send the proxy information along to the WS team and see if anyone has any insight.

Bob (and support-team),

i tried the web services explorer without proxy-information: i had no problem with opening a wsdl nor with testing the web service

i filled in my proxy settings and tried it again. just the same results: no problem with both (opening a wsdl and testing a web service)

so i don't experience bob's problem, don't know

ps. i use tomcat 5.0.28 and jdk 1.5.0_07

hysterio, thanks for following up. From the initial assessment I got back we couldn't reproduce it internally.

I closed eclipse and started it up again, and I had the same problem. I was able to get the wsdl, but not exercies any of the service points. So I went into preferences and turned my proxy server back on again, and the explorer suddently started working again.

I don't know what is causing the problem, but it is definately annoying.

I like the explorer when it is working! Sorry I don't have any additional info to provide. Must be something about my setup.

Bob

Yup.. just pressing the proxy button with nothing works!

I could see the services but only when I pressed the proxy button did I get any response from the service other than error.

To Recap: I put NOTHING into the proxy fields.. just clicked it on!

weired.

Hope this helps fix the bug...

Sounds like some flaky bug in there, I'll file it for investigation.

When you hit the "add" button for aprameters you get a shiny new one to play with.
Clicking remove (even with the check box selected) does not allow you to remove the parameter...
You have to switch to source and delete the line.
Nice to fix that too if you are hacking about in that same area.

Best to spell check my posts on here before I hit the submit button too! as you cannot go back and edit them it seems.