In troubleshooting a problem another user, PeterJ, found what looks like a coding error at line 404 in org.jboss.ws.core.CommonClient.invoke(). Exception is caught but details are not logged before another method is called which in turn causes another exception. See http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=141051

I tried using JBossWS 3.x stand alone, stock downloads of JBossAS 4.2.x and JBossAS 4.2.x updated to JBossWS 3.0.1, 3.0.2, & 3.0.3. All versions of JBossWS 3.0.x appear to contain this code segment.

// Stacktrace
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot find property: java
x.xml.ws.handler.message.outbound
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientImpl.handleRemoteException(ClientImpl.java:404)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:314)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientProxy.invoke(ClientProxy.java:172)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientProxy.invoke(ClientProxy.java:152)
at $Proxy19.update(Unknown Source)
at com.boeing.nmt.nls.mv4client.MV4Client.disableTag(MV4Client.java:308)
at com.boeing.nmt.nls.test.AssetTest.main(AssetTest.java:25)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot find property: javax.xml.ws.handler.message.outbound
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.handler.MessageContextJAXWS.processPivot(MessageContextJAXWS.java:109)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientImpl.processPivot(ClientImpl.java:363)
at org.jboss.ws.core.CommonClient.processPivotInternal(CommonClient.java:476)
at org.jboss.ws.core.CommonClient.invoke(CommonClient.java:404)
at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.client.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:302)

// Lines 401-420 of CommonClient.java
// http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossws/stack/native/trunk/modules/core/src/main/java/org/jboss/ws/core/CommonClient.java
catch (Exception ex)

{ // Reverse the message direction processPivotInternal(msgContext, direction); // <-- line 404, where the later exception gets thrown if (faultType[2] != null) callFaultHandlerChain(portName, faultType[2], ex); if (faultType[1] != null) callFaultHandlerChain(portName, faultType[1], ex); if (faultType[0] != null) callFaultHandlerChain(portName, faultType[0], ex); throw ex; }

finally

{ closeHandlerChain(portName, handlerType[2]); closeHandlerChain(portName, handlerType[1]); closeHandlerChain(portName, handlerType[0]); }