[AXIS-2774] AXIS 1.4 Issue with Vmware for German char set .

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Serialization/Deserialization

Environment

OS: german , Windows 2003
Software platform: Java, VMware web service api
Setup:
1. ASM (My produce) is installed on top of NSM,
2. ASM Proxy service gathers data from VMware Virtual center service.
3. every ASM/NSM connect goes ONLY via Firewall to the remote DSM and then to the VCS Server

Hints:
- Users had only access via Firewall to the Portal and Citrix ( from NSM () Perspective).
- every NSM connect goes ONLY via Firewall to the remote DSM and then to the VCS Server
- Microsoft Hot Fixes are deliver via WSUS from the Windows Security Team
More info:
1. Is the problem reproducible? - YES
2. VirtualCenter Version - 2.5 Build 84767
3. Host Version - ESX3.0.2 Build 95415/61618 AND ESX 3.0.1Build 60875
4. VI SDK Version - 2.5
5. How many Host Systems for each ESX Server version are you running?: 15 (esx 3.0.2 servers) and 87 VMs
6. Toolkit Used: AXIS 1.4

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pravin Sinha
• Created: 02/Feb/09 15:11
• Updated: 11/Jan/12 11:35

Description

Problem is occurring while getting information related to VM using VI SDK on German Client.

There is axisfault message in the attached log file:
2008-10-31 15:05:35,813 [main] FATAL com.ca.proxyservice.connectionmanager.CAVCProxy - startup: Could not initialize CAVCProxy
AxisFault
faultCode:

{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}

Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 s
equence.
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}

stackTrace:org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:
Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createS
AXParseException(Unknown Source)

To investigate the issue further we created a client-config.wsdd file which will dump the SOAP Messages. But our proxy service started working when we use the client-config.wsdd file.

If we remove the Axis config file then proxy service fails and we were getting the same exception as mentioned above.

Attached herewith the vc proxy log and client-config.wsdd file for more investigation.
Problem Assumption: It seems there is some localization exception in AXIS1.4 while parsing the soap response returned by Virtual Center API.