CXF Web service client error

Question

I am trying to invoke a web service from java client using apache CXF. Following is my client code snippet.

Client client = new ClientImpl(new URL("http://localhost:8080/socialkast-web/services/skservice?wsdl"));
Object[] results = client.invoke("uploadVideoMetaData", new Object[] {metaData});
  String result = (String)results[0]; 

I am getting parsing error although i am able to access the wsdl file from browser. Following is the exception stack.

INFO: Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@14f5a31: defining beans [cxf,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusApplicationListener,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusWiringBeanFactoryPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.Jsr250BeanPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusExtensionPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.resource.ResourceManager,org.apache.cxf.configuration.Configurer,org.apache.cxf.binding.BindingFactoryManager,org.apache.cxf.transport.DestinationFactoryManager,org.apache.cxf.transport.ConduitInitiatorManager,org.apache.cxf.wsdl.WSDLManager,org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseManager,org.apache.cxf.workqueue.WorkQueueManager,org.apache.cxf.buslifecycle.BusLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerRegistry,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.transports.http.QueryHandlerRegistry,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.EndpointResolverRegistry,org.apache.cxf.headers.HeaderManager,org.apache.cxf.catalog.OASISCatalogManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServiceContractResolverRegistry,org.apache.cxf.binding.corba.CorbaBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.binding.corba.wsdl.WSDLExtensionRegister#0,org.apache.cxf.jaxws.context.WebServiceContextResourceResolver,org.apache.cxf.jaxws.context.WebServiceContextImpl,org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapTransportFactory,org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.customEditorConfigurer,org.apache.cxf.binding.xml.XMLBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.ws.addressing.policy.AddressingAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.ws.addressing.policy.AddressingPolicyInterceptorProvider,org.apache.cxf.ws.addressing.policy.UsingAddressingAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.javascript.JavascriptQueryHandlerRegistry,org.apache.cxf.transport.local.LocalTransportFactory,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.HTTPClientAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.HTTPServerAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.NoOpPolicyInterceptorProvider,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.ClientOnlyHTTPTransportFactory,org.apache.cxf.management.InstrumentationManager,org.apache.cxf.transport.http_jetty.JettyHTTPTransportFactory,org.apache.cxf.transport.jms.JMSTransportFactory,org.apache.cxf.binding.object.ObjectBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.binding.http.HttpBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.ws.security.policy.WSSecurityPolicyLoader,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistry,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyInterceptorProviderRegistry,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.external.DomainExpressionBuilderRegistry,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.external.EndpointReferenceDomainExpressionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyBuilder,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyEngine,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.ServiceModelPolicyProvider,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.mtom.MTOMAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.mtom.MTOMPolicyInterceptorProvider,org.apache.cxf.ws.rm.RMManager,org.apache.cxf.ws.rm.policy.RMPolicyInterceptorProvider,org.apache.cxf.ws.rm.RMAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.binding.corba.wsdl.WSDLExtensionRegister#1]; root of factory hierarchy
org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ServiceConstructionException: Failed to create service.
 at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLServiceFactory.<init>(WSDLServiceFactory.java:69)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.<init>(ClientImpl.java:152)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.<init>(ClientImpl.java:121)
 at tv.socialkast.client.ws.WSClient.<init>(WSClient.java:42)
 at tv.socialkast.upload.client.gui.UploadDirectoryChooser$DoneActionListener.actionPerformed(UploadDirectoryChooser.java:382)
 at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
**Caused by: javax.wsdl.WSDLException: WSDLException: faultCode=PARSER_ERROR: Problem parsing 'http://localhost:8080/socialkast-web/services/skservice?wsdl'.: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect**
 at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.getDocument(Unknown Source)
 at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
 at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLManagerImpl.loadDefinition(WSDLManagerImpl.java:232)
 at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLManagerImpl.getDefinition(WSDLManagerImpl.java:161)
 at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLServiceFactory.<init>(WSDLServiceFactory.java:67)
 ... 29 more

Please advice what am I missing here.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This could be something really obvious, but have you tried hitting your service from your browser? For example, try getting wsdl by pointing your web browser to:

http://localhost:8080/socialkast-web/services/skservice?wsdl

If you can't get there, maybe your server isn't running.