Web service is not working on GlassFish

Question

I am generating web service client in Eclipse Helios by Axis 1.4 version. The client stubs are working fine as per the expectation by using local main programs, but when I deploy the stub and application on GlassFish server, I am getting the following exception:

Edited : Now it gives exception like this ..

java.lang.IllegalStateException: WEB9031: WebappClassLoader unable to load resource [META-INF/services/org.apache.axis.EngineConfigurationFactory], because it has not yet been started, or was already stopped
    at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findResourceInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2074)
    at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findResource(WebappClassLoader.java:1034)
    at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.getResource(WebappClassLoader.java:1169)

Can anyone tell me why it is happening?

Its happening only when I deploy the application on GlassFish server.

Thanks, Gunjan.

Answer 1

This refers to the similar problem you have. So as I mention in my comment, remove all Axis related stuff from global glassfish classpath, add them into your application and it should all be fine.

It is not a very good practice to keep framework specific libraries in the server global libraries. In the global classpath should go libs like JDBC, logging frameworks, but not WS stack specific libraries.