“javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: is not a valid service.” proxy issue?

Question

As a premise, I am not very experienced yet, but I have tried to read and search everything I possibly could, related to this topic, and still no luck.

I was given a simple client to call a webservice but once it was fully setup (which included the use of a certificate and a couple more properties to set) I got the error mentioned in the title:

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: {http://http://cert.controller.portaapplicativa.ictechnology.it//}MyService is not a valid service. Valid services are: 
    at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.<init>(WSServiceDelegate.java:187)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.<init>(WSServiceDelegate.java:159)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.createServiceDelegate(ProviderImpl.java:82)
    at javax.xml.ws.Service.<init>(Service.java:56)
    at package.client.wsimport.MyService..<init>(MyService.java:46)
    at package.client.Client.doRicercaDEN(Client.java:55)
    at package.client.Client.main(Client.java:36)

I tried generating the client again with JAX-WS:

java -classpath C:\Programmi\Java\jdk1.6.0_38\lib\tools.jar com.sun.tools.internal.ws.WsImport -verbose C:\WsdlFile.wsdl -p package.client.wsimport -s C:\tmp\ws\

And I get the same issue. I am using a local copy of the wsdl because wsimport doesn't seem to like the certificate I'm trying to set in the properties (I'm most likely doing something wrong, but I opted for the simple workaround, given I have more pressing issues).

Trying to use SoapUI to test the service, everything works fine, though I need to set the preferences for the proxy to "None".

So I tried to make sure the connection doesn't use any proxy in my client as well:

(...)
systemSettings.remove("http.proxyHost");
systemSettings.remove("http.proxyPort");
systemSettings.remove("https.proxyHost");
systemSettings.remove("https.proxyPort");
System.setProperty("http.nonProxyHosts","*");
System.setProperty("https.nonProxyHosts","*");

(BTW, before "*", which as I understand it should work as a wildcard for "every domain", I have tried specifying the specific domains as well) Anyway, the result is always the same.

Is there something I am doing wrong, something left to try?

Answer 1

I doubt this is a proxy issue. If you can share the code you are using to create the Service object it might help.
As a kick start try reading the below thread
Is not a valid service exception in JAX-WS
What I think is that the QName you have provided when creating the Service is not proper. To get the correct QName you might try to open the generated stub.

Answer 2

As it turns out, what I was missing was importing the certificate in my local truststore (or better, when I first tried doing so, I thought I was using the correct truststore, but I wasn't).

For anyone who may need it, here is an explanation of how to do that using keytool: http://javarevisited.blogspot.it/2012/03/add-list-certficates-java-keystore.html

Another option is to use specific GUI like Portecle.