I suggest you ask your question on the axis-user discussion list.
Please also attach your WSDL to your question.

My guess is that you need to specify your user name and password in a
SOAP header rather than in the HTTP header, but I can't tell without
seeing the WSDL.

Anne

On Dec 24, 2007 12:18 PM, cinthia.menon <cinthia.menon@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I need some help w.r.t web services in java. I have a wsdl file and i
> need to send and receive calls to this wsdl url or file through java
> program. This url needs authentication (user name and pwd). So for
> this, i have used the wsdl2java tool(by downloading xerces,axis and
> installing tomcat) to convert the wsdl into java classes and i wrote a
> small client program to call this java classes. I am having a problem
> now. The client program compiles succesfully but the when i run it, it
> gives a "missing authentication header" exception. Actually from the
> wsdl file i have, there is a class called AuthenticationHeader.java
> also generated. I called setUsername and setPassword methods available
> on this class to set the username and password for the wsdl url but
> this does not help. I don't understand if this is the right way to do
> it. The complete exception details are:
>
> Exception in thread "main" AxisFault
> faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Client
> faultSubcode:
> faultString: Missing authentication header.
> faultActor:
> faultNode:
> faultDetail:
> {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:Missing authentication
> header.
> at
> org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder
> .java:222)
> at
> org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.
> java:129)
> at
> org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(Deserializ
> ationContext.java:1087)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source
> )
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknow
> n Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
> Dispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Un
> known Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Sour
> ce)
> at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(Deserialization
> Context.java:227)
> at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
> at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
> at
> org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnders
> tandChecker.java:62)
> at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
> at
> new5.wsdl.VMware_x0020_Lab_x0020_Manager_x0020_SOAP_x0020_interface
> Soap_BindingStub.getTemplateByName
> (VMware_x0020_Lab_x0020_Manager_x0020_SOAP_x
> 0020_interfaceSoap_BindingStub.java:2132)
> at Client.main(Client.java:57)
>
> {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}hostname:supraja-win
>
> Missing authentication header.
> at
> org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder
> .java:222)
> at
> org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.
> java:129)
> at
> org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(Deserializ
> ationContext.java:1087)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source
> )
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknow
> n Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
> Dispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Un
> known Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown
> Source)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Sour
> ce)
> at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(Deserialization
> Context.java:227)
> at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
> at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
> at
> org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnders
> tandChecker.java:62)
> at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
> at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
> at
> new5.wsdl.VMware_x0020_Lab_x0020_Manager_x0020_SOAP_x0020_interface
> Soap_BindingStub.getTemplateByName
> (VMware_x0020_Lab_x0020_Manager_x0020_SOAP_x
> 0020_interfaceSoap_BindingStub.java:2132)
> at Client.main(Client.java:57)
>
> Any help would be really appreciated regardng this. Many thanks in
> advance
>
>