org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Reference to undefined entity: trade

Question

I am trying to use SoapUI 5.3.0 for the first time. Here is what I have done:

1. Created a default WCF Project and published it to IIS.
2. Ensure that I can reach the WSDL here: http://MyComputer/WCFTest/Service1.svc?wsdl
3. Open Soap UI and select File/New SOAP Project
4. Enter the Initial WSDL as per step 2. The project Name is automatically populated. Click OK.

Then I see this window:

I type in my Windows credential (to access the proxy server) and then see this error:

Error loading [http://MyComputer/WCFTest/Service1.svc?wsdl]: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: 
org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Reference to undefined entity: trade 

Answer 1

Surely in your case there is a problem with authentication through the proxy using SOAPUI. Hence SOAPUI downloads some error message data instead of the WSDL; and this is the reason why you get a XMLBeans exception, because XMLBeans it's trying to parse and error data instead of an well-formed WSDL.

You can try different ways to by-pass this problem:

Configure the proxy

You can try to configure correctly the proxy in SOAPUI, access through File > Preference and then select proxy tab on the new window, make sure that your proxy configuration is correct (could be also probably that you're not behind a proxy so a setting to none may solve your problem).

Download the WSDL an load in SOAPUI from a file

If you can download the WSDL from a browser without problems and you can hit the server endpoint from SOAPUI, then simply download the WSDL save the file in your disk and create the SOAPUI project using the WSDL from the file directly.