topic SAXException during Authentication - please help in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saxexception-during-authentication-please-help/m-p/39013#M20751 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have alfresco 1.2.1 successfully running in jboss, however, when I try to connect to the web server with the following code:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "admin");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; try<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; { // do something&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; finally<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // End the session<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AuthenticationUtils.endSession();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I get the following Exception:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Processing instructions are not allowed within SOAP messages<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.webservice.authentication.AuthenticationServiceSoapBindingStub.startSession(AuthenticationServiceSoapBindingStub.java:187)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.webservice.util.AuthenticationUtils.startSession(AuthenticationUtils.java:70)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; … 151 more<BR />Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Processing instructions are not allowed within SOAP messages<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startDTD(DeserializationContext.java:1161)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.doctypeDecl(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.doctypeDecl(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.scanDoctypeDecl(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; … 161 more<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I've looked at the axis 1.4 DeserializationContext.startDTD method and it appears that it *always* throws this Exception. What am I doing wrong?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>java -version:&nbsp; java version "1.5.0_06"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>jboss AS: jboss-4.0.SPI</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm unsure of the version of xerces I'm using, but I believe it is the default one with JBoss.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:57:33 GMT jfrench 2006-06-16T19:57:33Z SAXException during Authentication - please help https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saxexception-during-authentication-please-help/m-p/39013#M20751 I have alfresco 1.2.1 successfully running in jboss, however, when I try to connect to the web server with the following code:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "admin");&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; try&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; { // do something&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; finally&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // End the session&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:57:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saxexception-during-authentication-please-help/m-p/39013#M20751 jfrench 2006-06-16T19:57:33Z Re: SAXException during Authentication - please help https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saxexception-during-authentication-please-help/m-p/39014#M20752 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The issue was that JBoss wasn't finding my webserviceclient.properties file because of the bug fixed in this JIRA issue: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-589" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-589</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>because the web-service-client wasn't finding the properties file, the web-service code was trying to connect to the wrong url. I found this by enabling the tomcat RequestDumperValue and examining the Http request before the stack trace.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Although this proved easy to fix and just a problem in configuration, it was difficult to discover because the stack trace lead me down several other paths. Is it possible to throw a better exception which indicates or at least prints out the current web service configuration so the programmer has a clue what is going on?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:43:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saxexception-during-authentication-please-help/m-p/39014#M20752 jfrench 2006-06-19T18:43:37Z