You may get this error when you try and run a Java client to a SSL based web service. If you do experience this problem, you need to point to the WAS ssl.client.props file and add the cert to the chain. You will probably be prompted, and when you do, you’ll need to answer Y [...]
So you get your web service client working nicely and deploy your code to Websphere only to find this ugly Websphere Exception: [6/3/10 21:28:28:081 EDT] 00000035 Connection E com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Connection invoke WSWS3227E: Error: Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch From what I have read online, this can happen based on the webservices.jar file not being the most [...]
If you need to log SOAP information in Websphere, you can turn on trace logging and set the following value in the Change Log Details Level (Logging and Tracing > ServerName > Diagnostic Trace Service > Change Log Detail Levels) : com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.*=all This will log only the SOAP web service messages without seeing all of [...]
There may be occasions where you need to perform SSL web services through your application into another web service. You need to become a bit familiar with key stores and trust files. I ended up using the default dummy files shipped with WebSphere, you will see this in the IBM article I will refer you [...]