title: running an axis2 client version 1.5
body: <p>So I'm running out of ideas to try to actually get a client to connect to the SOAP service I'm running through axis2.</p>
  
  <p>I tried two methods, one was to use wsdl2java to build the stub and associated client side classes, and then write a Client class that build the requests messages and sends them through the Stub. The other way was to use the ServiceClient to connect..</p>
  
  <p>Both are failing in their own way..</p>
  
  <p>Option #1, every time a message is sent through the stub I get this back:</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: The input stream for an incoming message is null.
  at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createSOAPMessage(TransportUtils.java:87)
  at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createSOAPMessage(TransportUtils.java:67)
  at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:354)
  at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:417)
  at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:229)
  at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:165)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Option #2, everytime I run it I get this Exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentException: org.apache.axis2.transport.local.LocalTransportSender
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Option #2 source:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
  import org.apache.axiom.om.OMAbstractFactory; 
  import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
  import org.apache.axiom.om.OMFactory;
  import org.apache.axiom.om.OMNamespace;
  import org.apache.axis2.addressing.EndpointReference;
  import org.apache.axis2.client.Options;
  import org.apache.axis2.Constants;
  import org.apache.axis2.client.ServiceClient;
  
  public class loyaltyClient {
  
      private static EndpointReference targetEPR = 
           new EndpointReference(
             "http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/service");
  
      public static OMElement verifyCustomer(String customer_id) {
          OMFactory fac = OMAbstractFactory.getOMFactory();
          OMNamespace omNs = fac.createOMNamespace(
                  "http://localhost/", "service");
          OMElement method = fac.createOMElement("VerifyCustomer", omNs);
          OMElement value1 = fac.createOMElement("customer_id",omNs);
          OMElement value2 = fac.createOMElement("source_id",omNs);
          OMElement value3 = fac.createOMElement("source_password",omNs);
          OMElement value4 = fac.createOMElement("source_txnid",omNs);
          OMElement value5 = fac.createOMElement("timestamp",omNs);
  
  value1.addChild(fac.createOMText(value1, customer_id));
  value2.addChild(fac.createOMText(value2, "source"));
  value3.addChild(fac.createOMText(value3, "1234"));
  value4.addChild(fac.createOMText(value4, "123"));
  value5.addChild(fac.createOMText(value5, "06-01-2010 12:01:01"));
          method.addChild(value1);
          method.addChild(value2);
          method.addChild(value3);
          method.addChild(value4);
          method.addChild(value5);
          return method;
      }
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          try {
              OMElement vctest = loyaltyClient.verifyCustomer("6177740603");
              Options options = new Options();
              options.setTo(targetEPR);
  
  options.setTransportInProtocol(Constants.TRANSPORT_HTTP);
  
              ServiceClient sender = new ServiceClient();
              sender.setOptions(options);
              OMElement result = sender.sendReceive(vctest);
  
              String response = result.getFirstElement().getText();
              System.out.println(response);
  
          } catch (Exception e) { //(XMLStreamException e) {
              System.out.println(e.toString());
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>