Axis NullPointerException

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bwagner

I' ve written a very basic portlet which uses Alfresco Web Services. When I try to use it from the portal I receive an Exception when calling AuthenticationUtils. Username and pasword are provided and I can reach the Service via url.

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.axis.client.Service.getEngineConfiguration(Service.java:813)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Service.getAxisClient(Service.java:104)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Service.<init>(Service.java:113)
        at org.alfresco.webservice.authentication.AuthenticationServiceLocator.<init>(AuthenticationServiceLocator.java:16)
        at org.alfresco.webservice.util.WebServiceFactory.getAuthenticationService(WebServiceFactory.java:159)
        at org.alfresco.webservice.util.AuthenticationUtils.startSession(AuthenticationUtils.java:79)
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I already put the log level for the axis packages to DEBUG but can't find anything helpful.

openpj

Have you provided the endpoint address using the WebServiceFactory class?

String endpointAddress = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api";
WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress(endpointAddress);

//then you can create a new user session
AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin","admin");
…
try{
….
} finally {

AuthenticationUtils.closeSession();

}
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Hope this helps.